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Chapter 794: The Great Expedition

Burning incense and praying, and paying homage to their ancestors, a group of Zhou clan members bowed three times and kowtowed nine times to the spirit tablets of their ancestors.

Zhou You, who was in Xizong, also knelt down and saw that the family name painted on the wall of the ancestral hall was slightly different from the stone drum in his hand.

The origin of the Zhou family, that is, the first ancestor who founded the family, was named Zhou Xianyi.

Zhou Xianyi is also the ancestor of all the Zhou family members in Zuofu, Dijing.

Including Zhou You, all the blood flowing in their bodies eventually converged on this ancestor.

The family surname written on the mural was left by the ancestor Zhou and is the orthodox Zhou family.

As for the origins of the Eastern and Western sects, they should be traced back six generations from Zhou Xianyi, the two brothers Zhou Xuan and Zhou Su.

Zhou Xuan's descendants prospered and have multiplied to form the main clan to this day, but Zhou Su's fertility was not very good, and there were very few descendants. Later on, even some prosperous side branches were lacking!
Zhou Nanwang was separated from the two by more than a hundred generations. After returning to his family, he traced his ancestors and found that the ancestor who was exiled to Beixuan was actually the descendant of Zhou Su.

Originally, this was nothing. Couldn’t the Zhou family support a member of a small branch of the clan?
As a result, Zhou Nanwang worked hard and broke through on his own to become a master, and was appreciated by the feudal lord and entrusted with important tasks.

This is where things get interesting, as Zhou Nanwang then proposed raising the ranking of the ancestral tablet and moving it back next to Zhou Xuan’s tablet, thus forming a situation where two ancestors were listed side by side.

The head of the family at that time was Zhou Tianyuan's son and also a descendant of Zhou Xuan. How could he agree to this?

The people on both sides of Zhou Xuan's tablet are his direct descendants. If they want to leave a space, they must move their ancestors away.

Anyone who does this will definitely be labeled an unfilial descendant!
What's more, Zhou Su's spirit tablet returned to Zhou Xuan's side, and his descendants also had to move forward. The noise was so loud that the ancestral hall was about to experience a shocking earthquake.

The Grandmasters Zhou Tianyuan, Zhou Feixing and others from the main sect were able to be controlled by Zhou Nanwang who had just broken through. They immediately used thundering means to deal with him, but they didn't expect...

The support for Zhou Nanwang was far beyond imagination. The noble families in the left and right mansions, including the feudal lords of the Jitian Palace, were alarmed and sent their sons to persuade and mediate.

This incident was called Zhou's "Ten Years of Internal Change" and lasted for a total of ten years.

Zhou Nanwang had fought with the master of the main sect hundreds of times, and was in danger several times, even his life was in jeopardy.

Finally, after much persuasion from all sides, the main sect could no longer hold on and agreed to split into two sects, the East and the West.

From then on, Zhou Su was elevated to the ancestor of the Western Sect, on par with Zhou Xuan, and the two sects jointly revered their ancestor Zhou Xianyi as the first ancestor.

In fact, the two sects of the East and the West have been at odds with each other for a long time.

Unless it is a large-scale ceremony of combined sacrifice, under normal circumstances, the two clans will each sacrifice to their ancestors. It was the same before the brothers Zhou Xuan and Zhou Su, but it was different for the Eastern and Western ancestors.

The sacrifices to the Eastern Clan went on as usual. Zhou Xuan's lineage enjoyed incense and offerings, while Zhou Su's branch was relegated to a corner and gathered ashes.

The same goes for the Western Sect. Zhou Su enjoyed the flourishing fireworks, while Zhou Xuan's branch... just ate ashes.

But today was different. The two families worshipped together in the ancestral temple, with both ancestors listed side by side. Although they were very annoyed with each other, they had to suppress their dissatisfaction because of the presence of outsiders.

"Zhou Nanwang, we can't lie in front of our ancestors. We should tell the truth!"

Zhou Tianyuan took the lead and said, "You are making a fuss out of nothing. You insist on saying that my descendants assassinated your adopted son. Do you have any evidence?"

"Without evidence, it's a false accusation, a frame-up, a frame-up!"

The young man standing behind him was Zhou Xie, who was the person who leaked Zhou You's whereabouts.

Zhou Nanwang laughed when he heard this, "You know that the Impermanence Killer does things cleanly and it is difficult to find evidence. No wonder you are so confident."

"I have evidence. Zhou Yi sent someone to track Daqian's whereabouts and leaked it. The evidence is irrefutable. You can't deny it, right?"

Zhou Tianyuan's arrogance, like hair licked by a fiery tongue, suddenly shrank back.

He glared at Zhou Yi fiercely, thinking that this good-for-nothing was always indecisive and slow in doing things.

"It's unfair, Master. I meant no harm. I just heard that your adopted son was a hero, so I wanted to invite him to dinner and asked for information. As for the whereabouts being leaked, it was all because of my subordinates' greed for money." Zhou Yu cleared the matter up in a few words. Anyway, all the subordinates who had been involved in the case had been silenced, so there was no way to trace him.

He made up his mind and insisted that there was no ill intention in tracking Zhou You, as this was the only evidence the other party had anyway.

"That's easy to deal with. You must have rehearsed a lot in the past few days!"

Zhou Nanwang nodded with a smile, and suddenly clenched his fist and raised it. Zhou Xie's blood and energy surged, and he actually forcibly pulled off a strand of it.

Upon seeing this scene, Zhou Tianyuan, Zhou Feixing, and the sleepy octogenarian master of the Western Sect all widened their eyes at the same time, as if they had seen an incredible miracle.

"Da Zheng Ti Jie Shou!"

It turned out that this was a secret technique Zhou Nanwang created from the Zhou family boxing's highest profound skill "A Hundred Battles to Survive", which was extremely difficult.

The Zhou family is full of talented people, but there are only a handful of them who can create master-level mystical skills.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Nanwang hid his skills and quietly mastered the Da Zheng Ti Jie Shou, and made a debut in the ancestral hall.

In front of everyone, Zhou Tianyuan would definitely not let him succeed.

"Whizzing!"

Zhou Tianyuan and Zhou Feixing, two masters of the Eastern Sect, flew out and attacked from both sides to snatch the blood and energy in Zhou Nanwang's hand.

If the aftermath of the fight between the three masters were to erupt without restraint, a single collision would raze the ancestral hall to the ground.

Fortunately, they knew how to fight in a restrained manner, and their power was compressed into a small area with every move they made. They looked ordinary, and the Qi and Blood Warriors fought better than them.

Zhou Nanwang fought one against two but did not lose the upper hand. He used the Great Conquest and Robbery Hand to firmly grasp the ball of blood and energy, while fighting with the two masters with ease.

Suddenly he shouted, "Want to erase the truth?"

The sound was like thunder in a dry land, making the ears of all the tribesmen present ring.

Zhou Nanwang was seen holding back Zhou Tianyuan and Zhou Feixing with one palm, while with the other hand he pinched the ball of qi and blood and slowly lifted it up.

The entanglement of life and death is a catastrophe, and the hand that lifts the catastrophe is the supreme method to survive and turn the impossible into possible.

Originally, before today, Zhou Tianyuan privately taught Liuli Shouguang Fist's "heart defense technique", which can resist the torture of high levels and maintain inner defense without wavering.

But as soon as Da Zhengti made his move, the so-called "Glass Heart Defense" was immediately broken and became a joke.

Zhou Yi was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

"Zhou Yu, let me ask you, do you plead guilty?"

Zhou Nanwang began to interrogate.

"No, don't answer that, don't be fooled!"

Zhou Tianyuan yelled to stop him, but it was too late.

Zhou Yu opened his mouth and said, "I am guilty. I sent people to track Zhou You in order to find his whereabouts and kill him. He is Zhou Nanwang's adopted son. Killing him can please the ancestor."

Hearing this, Zhou Tianyuan closed his eyes. It was over. Zhou Nanwang had succeeded after all.

Everyone present, including the Three Gentlemen, the Eight Gentlemen, and Uncle Wang, could see that Zhou Nanwang's move had shocked Zhou Yi's mind, making it impossible for him to hide anything and force him to honestly speak his mind.

In other words, the crimes Zhou Yi admitted to were real and there was no room for excuses.

(End of this chapter)