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Chapter 127 Conservative Strategy, War and Fire [Subscription Request]

When encountering major events that concern the fate of all the cultivators in the entire family, the decision must be made by the clan leader and the elders together and must be approved by the supreme elder.

This is the rule of the Zhou family, and it is also the rule of many sects and families.

With this rule in place, we can try to avoid situations where the entire family or sect suffers major losses due to one person's inconsideration.

If the decision made after everyone discusses together still causes major losses to the family and the sect, the responsibility will not be attributed to a single individual, but will be borne by all decision-makers together.

This way, the clan leader or the head of the sect will not be forced to step down after the family sect suffers heavy losses due to a wrong decision.

Therefore, whether it was the previous discussion about who to send to Yunzhou to apply for the army, or the current discussion about how to deal with the Hualong Sect's detachment that had infiltrated Lanzhou, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun, as the clan leader and acting clan leader, immediately summoned the elders of the family to a meeting to discuss the matter.

At this moment, facing the questions raised by Zhou Chun, several elders of the Zhou family frowned and looked thoughtful.

This concerns the future and safety of the entire family, so they have no choice but to be cautious.

After pondering for a long time, the fifth elder Zhou Jiahe was the first to speak: "I think that the impact of this incident on my Zhou family should not be as great as that on other families."

"Now, my Zhou family has only two properties outside of the mountain gate. One is the Chiyao iron ore vein, and the other is the shop in Hongyafang City."

"Let's not talk about the shops in the market. We can first ship a few months' worth of inventory over there to see how the situation develops."

"As for the Chiyao Iron Ore, after years of mining, there shouldn't be much profit left. If we are really attacked, we won't mind giving it up."

"So as long as we guard the mountain gate well and prevent the masters of the Hualong Sect from sneaking in to cause damage, and try to control the number of times our members go out, there shouldn't be any problems!"

Although the elders of the Zhou family usually do not participate in the management of family affairs, most of them know the general situation of the family. They can also come to Zhongping Hall at any time to check the documents and understand the family situation.

This not only allows them to supervise the patriarch, but also makes it convenient for them to put forward suggestions and opinions during meetings.

Therefore, after Zhou Jiahe expressed his opinion at this moment, the other two elders could not help but nod slightly to show their agreement.

However, after listening to Zhou Jiahe's words, Zhou Chun frowned and said, "What the Fifth Elder said is not without reason, but our Zhou family has few businesses outside, and we are quite dependent on the outside world."

"Whether it's the materials for refining various elixirs, or some special ingredients for the monsters to eat, as well as finished elixirs, magic talismans, etc., they all have to be purchased from the outside world."

"If those people from the Dragon Transformation Sect really set their sights on this, the family's loss will still be huge!"

A big force will not allow itself to have shortcomings in certain aspects and will strive to be self-sufficient, which is what many big forces are trying to do.

But that is something that only big forces with a long heritage and vast territories should consider.

For a cultivation family like the Zhou family, especially one that has only been rooted in the local area for more than ten years, it is simply impossible to be self-sufficient.

Just the raw materials alone are impossible to produce by ourselves.

The reason why the Zhou family is still using the good deeds system is because most of the family’s income is used to purchase resources.

Moreover, there are many suppliers of these resources, half of which come from purchases in the market town, and half come from other immortal cultivation families and individual cultivators.

Some resources are delivered to your door, while others require someone to pick them up.

This is also a very important reason why we cannot easily close the mountains and doors.

"Zhengchun, what you said makes sense, but the family's savings should be able to support us for a few months, right? I think these few months should be enough for the situation in Lanzhou to become clear, and the battle situation in Yunzhou should also change."

"In short, we don't send people out, but we don't refuse people from delivering goods to our door. With this approach, others can't find any big problems."

The one who said this was the second elder Zhou Chongshan.

He had served as the clan leader several times before, and he understood the family situation better than the other two new elders present.

Moreover, he can be said to be the conservative in the Zhou family and is relatively conservative in certain decision-making aspects.

But as the only member of the Zhou family with the surname "Chong", his words are still very influential. Even the clan leader Zhou Daoyi sometimes fully considers his status and face.

So at this time, the fourth elder Zhou Jiarui also looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Zhengchun, do you have any better suggestions? If not, I also think the suggestions of the second and fifth elders are good, and we can ask the supreme elder to make a decision."

Zhou Chun originally had some ideas.

But now that he saw that the elders were almost unanimous in their opinions, he didn't want to bring it up anymore.

After all, the acting patriarch is only an acting one and has not yet been promoted to a permanent position.

If you don't get a regular job one day, you may lose the chance to get a regular job due to a major mistake.

Therefore, although Zhou Chun felt that the suggestions of the elders were a bit conservative, for his own sake, he decided to play it safe and not say much.

From this perspective, he is still somewhat selfish and unable to serve the public wholeheartedly.

But how many people in this world are free of selfishness?

People who are dedicated to serving the public are certainly admirable, but that's all they are admirable.

As a cultivator, seeking immortality is the first and most important thing in life.

Therefore, when it is beneficial to this major event, private interests should be put first and public interests second, and private interests should be greater than public interests.

Therefore, Zhou Chun was selfish and frank at this time, and said directly without any guilt: "I have no objection, so please ask the Second Elder to go to meet the Supreme Elder and explain the matter!"

"Okay, I will go see the Grand Elder right away."

Zhou Chongshan responded and immediately went to the cave on the top of Pagoda Peak to pay a visit to the supreme elder Zhou Mingde.

In fact, the task of meeting the supreme elder Zhou Mingde should have been done by the acting clan leader Zhou Chun.

But for some reason, although the clan leader Zhou Daoyi often said that the supreme elder Zhou Mingde praised him very much.

However, Zhou Chun had never had the opportunity to meet the supreme elder Zhou Mingde alone.

Even though he became the acting clan leader this time, the matter of reporting to the supreme elder Zhou Mingde was handed over to the second elder Zhou Chongshan.

Zhou Chun had thought about this before.

But the supreme elder Zhou Mingde is the mainstay of the Zhou family, so even if he has some thoughts in his mind, he dare not reveal them.

He could only comfort himself by saying that his cultivation was not good enough to have a face-to-face conversation with a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator.

Without making Zhou Chun and the others wait any longer, Zhou Chongshan left for about an hour and then came back with the decision of the supreme elder Zhou Mingde.

"The Grand Elder basically agreed with our suggestions and told us to carry out the plan. He will also be ready to take action at any time!"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately said, "Let's do it this way. I will arrange for someone to notify all the cooperating forces and complete the contraction as soon as possible."

So as soon as the elders left, he issued several orders, asking some clansmen to leave Jiufengling with letters and go to various forces that had cooperated with the Zhou family to convey the information.

Among them, there are four families with extremely close cooperation, such as the Wang family of Hongyao Valley, the Mu family of Biyun Mountain, the Sun family of Jinfengling, and the He family of Qingzhu Mountain. Zhou Chun even revealed that if they were attacked by the Hualong Sect, they might temporarily give up the plan of the Chiyao iron ore vein.

Anyway, he has done what he can, and what other families think or do has nothing to do with him.

In the following period of time, because of the fact that a small group of the Hualong Sect had sneaked into Lanzhou, all the major immortal cultivation families in Lanzhou felt as if they were on high alert.

There were quite a few families that adopted the same conservative strategy as the Zhou family, especially those families that were closely involved with the Qinglian Temple, and several of them actually closed their doors to the mountains.

From this, it is not difficult to see that the Hualong Sect's extermination of families that had close ties with the Qinglian Temple in Yunzhou really had a great deterrent effect.

Now the ruling foundation of Qinglian Temple has indeed been greatly shaken.

At the same time, a reinforcement force from Qinglian Temple, which rushed to Lanzhou from Lianzhou, also quickly entered the Hongyafang City.

What made Zhou Chun happy was that Liu Shiyun’s master, Taoist Mingxia, was also among the reinforcements.

Ever since the Zhou family established a relationship with Taoist Mingxia by using the information sheets of the Hualong Sect's followers, they have never stopped offering sacrifices to the Purple Mansion monk of the Qinglian Temple.

For example, most of the spiritual honey produced by the Zhou family's [Jade Spirit Bee] was given to the Taoist Kun of Qinglian Temple as a gift. He also formulated a growth package for his spiritual beast and arranged for people to deliver the corresponding supplies every few months.

Although Taoist Mingxia did not make any promises to the Zhou family because of these things.

But since she accepted the gift, she must show some appreciation in the future.

Otherwise, if she only takes in money and doesn't give out, not to mention how angry the Zhou family will be, once the news gets out, other forces will no longer dare to have any expectations of her, which is tantamount to cutting off her own source of income.

So now that Taoist Mingxia has come to Lanzhou, it is undoubtedly a new strong ally for the Zhou family.

From now on, we can be completely relieved about the safety of the mountain gate.

The arrival of Taoist Mingxia and others shows that Qinglian Temple still attaches great importance to Lanzhou, an important rear base. This also makes the various immortal cultivation families, which were originally uneasy, feel at ease.

Some families closer to Hongyafang City have even resumed normal activities.

But the danger is actually approaching quietly!
In a gathering place for independent cultivators in Lanzhou, a dignified middle-aged man in a black robe was listening to reports from his subordinates.

The man was wearing a black robe with dragon patterns embroidered in gold thread. It was the guardian robe of the Hualong Sect, indicating that he was a black dragon guardian of the Hualong Sect.

"Master Protector, we have collected and investigated all the intelligence on the various immortal cultivation families in Lanzhou. According to your request, we have listed several families that are most suitable as targets. Please take a look."

A black dragon messenger, who was also wearing a black robe with a dragon pattern embroidered with silver threads, was half-kneeling on the ground and respectfully handed a booklet to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man took the booklet, flipped through a few pages, and his eyes stopped on one of the pages.

Then he said calmly: "Let's go with the Mu family of Biyun Mountain. Their mountain gate is not far from the lake!"

"Yes, I will make arrangements now."

The Black Dragon Messenger, who was half-kneeling on the ground, looked solemn, bowed again, and then quietly retreated to prepare.

Two days later, dozens of members of the Dragon Transformation Sect suddenly appeared on the shore of the beautiful Biyun Lake. Their leader was a Black Dragon Guardian with the cultivation level of Purple Mansion Stage!
The Mu family cultivator who discovered this was so frightened that he was scared to death and tried his best to sound the alarm.

All you could hear was the sound of "dong dong dong" bells ringing continuously, and within half an hour, it rang ninety-nine and eighty-one times!
This was the highest level of alarm, meaning that the family was in danger of being wiped out. Even the monks in seclusion would be awakened at this time and come out to meet the enemy.

At the same time, a gorgeous magical firework exploded and rose directly from the sky above Biyun Mountain, turning into a huge blood-red lotus pattern.

The huge sound of fireworks exploding and the blood-red lotus pattern hanging two or three thousand feet in the sky could be seen and heard within a two hundred li radius around Biyun Mountain.

"Dad, Dad, it appeared. The blood lotus pattern you mentioned appeared in the sky!"

In a mountain village a hundred miles southwest of Biyun Mountain, a teenage young man wearing coarse linen clothes suddenly ran into the room with a look of shock on his face, and loudly told his paralyzed old father about the strange phenomenon in the sky outside.

"What did you say? Quick, carry me out!"

The old man on the bed was stunned at first, then his face suddenly changed. He hurriedly struggled with his hands to lift the quilt and asked the young man to carry him out.

After he lay on the young man's back and walked out of the room, the old man burst into tears after seeing the huge blood lotus pattern in the distant sky.

"Dad, why are you crying?"

The young man asked in confusion after feeling the coolness on his neck.

"Because Daddy's family is going to be gone! The family is going to be gone!!"

The old man burst into tears, then grabbed the young man by the collar and shouted, "Quick, go get the jar out of my bedside table!"

"Oh, Dad, stop talking nonsense. I understand. I'll do it right away."

The young man let out a cry of pain, hurriedly put the old man down, turned around and went into the room to carry out a black porcelain jar wrapped in a quilt, and placed it in front of the old man.

"Go get a torch."

The old man looked at the porcelain jar in front of him and made his request again.

Then, when the young man went to get fire, he carefully opened the moisture-proof cloth cover on the porcelain jar and took a look at what was inside.

Inside the porcelain jar, there was a dark brown granular substance, which filled half the jar.

At this time, the young man came over with a torch in his hand, and shouted, "Dad, here comes the torch you asked for."

The old man took the torch from the young man and looked at his face, which looked very much like his own when he was young. He smiled and said, "Son, do you still remember the Mu Family Manor where your father took you three years ago?"

"Of course I remember. Why did you suddenly bring this up, Dad?"

The young man nodded and looked at the old man with confusion.

Upon hearing this, the old man immediately said in a deep voice: "Then go to Mujia Manor now and tell the owner there that your father's mission has been completed, and you will stay there from now on!"

Then he waved his hand and said, "Don't ask any more questions. Just do as I say, and someone will tell you everything!"

"What about you, Dad?"

The young man seemed to realize something and looked at the old man with concern.

The old man suddenly smiled at him and said, "Your father should have gone down to accompany your mother a long time ago, but the mission assigned to me by the family does not allow me to end my life on my own!"

"It's all right now. Your father has completed his mission. I can finally go down and accompany your mother with peace of mind!"

After saying that, he put the torch in his hand into the porcelain jar in front of him.

Suddenly, a pungent smell emanated from the porcelain jar, and then a thick black smoke rose from the jar, soon forming a smoke column hundreds of feet high.

As the column of smoke rose, people who saw the smoke dozens of miles away, who had the same mission as the old man, quickly lit the beacon.

The beacon smoke spread to all directions, and in less than an hour, the same beacon smoke appeared near Jiufeng Ridge, hundreds of miles away.

At the same time, along with the emergence of these smoke signals, the news that the Mu family of Biyun Mountain was facing the crisis of extermination quickly spread to the ears of the patriarchs of the families that were on good terms with them.

The monks from Qinglian Temple in Hongyafang City also received the news quickly.

"It was the Mu family who stepped on this landmine first!"

On the Pagoda Peak, Zhou Chun flew into the air and looked at the column of smoke rising dozens of miles away with a complicated expression on his face.

There is another chapter in the evening.

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