Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 13 Three Reforms
Jiufeng Ridge, inside the Zhou Family Ancestral Temple.

In front of the vast majority of the Zhou family members, Zhou Wende, the elder of the Zhou family, solemnly announced various reform regulations of the Zhou family.

According to what he said, since the Zhou family is now officially inherited in the form of the Cultivation Family, it should continue its own inheritance like the other Cultivation Families in the future.

Therefore, the first point of change is to arrange the character generation and change the title.

The heaven and the earth are clear and bright, respecting Tao and guarding the family, rectifying the mind and thinking about the source, these twelve character generations are the Zhou family characters negotiated by Zhou Wende and the patriarch and elders.

In the future, from Zhou Wende to new-born children, they must be named according to the twelve-character generation.

And because the monks of the Zhou family are of different ages, the specific character generation to be used is to divide the generations from Zhou Wende's ancestors down to 50 years.

According to this division, the Zhou family currently has two "Ming" generation members, namely the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde and the Great Elder Zhou Mingshan.

There is one person in the "Chong" character generation, who is Zhou Chongshan, the second elder.

The two generations of "Tao" are the third elder Zhou Daoquan and the patriarch Zhou Daoyi.

There are three people in the "Shou" character generation, all of whom are members of the Zhou family who are over a hundred years old.

"Jia" has the most characters, with 67 people.

There are also 33 monks of the "Zheng" generation, and this generation will continue to be used for more than ten years.

According to this order, Zhou Chun, Zhou Yong, monks of the same age, and a 35-year-old Zhou Jingwen are arranged in the "positive" generation.

And Zhou Fei, whom Zhou Chun knew before, is in the "family" generation.

Zhou He, the peak owner of Baozhi Peak, is also in the "family" generation.

After the character generation is arranged, when clan members within the next three generations address each other, they must address each other as grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters.

Among peers, the size is based on age.

In this way, Zhou Chun ranked thirteen among the monks of the "Zheng" generation, a little older than most of the monks of the same generation.

In order to make it easier for each Zhou family monk to know the clan members of each generation, a handbook was specially distributed to each Zhou family monk at the scene, which listed in detail the current generation and peer ranking of the current Zhou family monks.

Those monks of the Zhou family who were not present will be distributed in the same way later.

Obviously, the purpose of this method of arranging characters and changing names is to unite all Zhou family monks inside and outside, and increase their sense of identity with the family and with other clansmen.

With the bond of blood and family, and the buttons between relatives, all the monks of the Zhou family are connected together, so that they can truly recognize the big family of the Zhou family.

Zhou Mingde and the other high-ranking members of the Zhou family have worked hard.

And because Zhou Mingde and other high-level members of the Zhou family took the lead in changing their names, even if some Zhou family monks felt uncomfortable about the sudden appearance of more elders of the grandpa and uncle generation, they could only bear with it and could not object.

Of course, in order to eliminate the discomfort in the hearts of these Zhou family monks, Zhou Mingde also made a serious statement on the spot. He will never allow any Zhou family monk to bully other generations by relying on his seniority and longevity. low tribe.

And considering that some people's names may not be catchy after being added to the character generation, the current Zhou family monks are allowed to call themselves by their original names.

All in all, the word generation was created to unite the Zhou family monks, and it must not be something that hinders the Zhou family monks from uniting.

After the first generation, Zhou Mingde quickly announced the second change.

That is to rank the existing Zhou family monk status according to the three factors of the Zhou family monk's cultivation base, achievements, and qualifications.

The highest rank is the Supreme Elder, followed by the Patriarch, and then the Elder.

Below the elders, there are three grades of core clansman, elite clansman, and ordinary clansman.

In the future, whether it is the welfare offerings issued every year, or the right to exchange and use certain family resources, and the right to practice martial arts and secret arts, they will be graded according to the status of each Zhou family member.

Even in the future, when clansmen clashed with each other and it was difficult to tell who was right and who was wrong, when the patriarchs and elders made judgments about right and wrong, they would favor the side with higher status.

According to this rule, the peak masters of every Lingfeng Peak in Jiufengling except Baota Peak will automatically become the core members of the family.

Clansmen who cultivated in the later stage of Qi refining will automatically become elite clansmen of the family, and the rest are ordinary clansmen.

In the next ten years, this set of identification standards will be effective.

That is to say, ordinary clansmen like Zhou Chun, as long as they can practice to the late stage of Qi refining within ten years, they can be automatically promoted to elite clansmen.

Of course, if an ordinary clansman performs well, makes enough contributions to the family, or has very good aptitude, even if his cultivation is not in the late stage of Qi refining, he can be promoted to an elite clansman, or even a core clansman.

Obviously, compared to just listening to a word-of-mouth ranking, this recognition of status is the real benefit.

This set is somewhat similar to the elite disciples, inner disciples, and outer disciples in the sect, or they have changed their names.

With this status grading system, in order to improve their treatment and obtain more cultivation resources, those ordinary and elite clansmen must work hard to improve their cultivation and accumulate achievements in order to become core clansmen.

This highly motivating change was undoubtedly accepted by all Zhou family monks on the spot.

After that, Zhou Mingde mentioned the third change.

This change is about the regulations on joining the sect and getting married in the future for monks of the Zhou family.

The Zhou family will not prevent the clansmen from joining other sects in the future, on the contrary, they will provide some help and subsidies.

But these are not free.

If a monk of the Zhou family accepts the subsidy and help of the Zhou family after joining the sect, but fails to establish a foundation before the age of 60, and fails to become an inner disciple in the sect, he must return to the family and be at ease for the family in the future. Effectiveness, or return the money and things that the family subsidized to oneself.

At the same time, if Zhou family monks want to leave the family due to personal marriage reasons, they need to compensate the family for all the resources they have spent on them over the years, and they are not allowed to spread the family secrets or leak family secrets.

On the contrary, if it is because of personal marriage, if a foreign monk is brought to the family, the family will also have a reward.

Judging from the third change, the Zhou family's family style is still very enlightened, at least Zhou Mingde and the others are the kind of enlightened people.

At least Zhou Chun has entered into himself. If he wants to join a certain sect, or leave the family for a certain beloved woman, this kind of enlightened approach of the family will make him very grateful and remember him for the rest of his life.

Of course he would never do such a thing.

Let alone those sects of cultivating immortals, after entering, they are not people with excellent aptitude, and their treatment may not be comparable to that of the Zhou family, and they will even be squeezed and restrained even more.

After the three major changes were announced, Zhou Mingde then announced some new family rules.

For example, it is strictly forbidden to provoke the big sects and big families with Nascent Soul monks and Jindan monks in Jingguo Qinglian Temple, and it is strictly forbidden to provoke some forces in Yasukuni with Zifu monks in charge. , ruin the reputation of the Zhou family and so on.

Correspondingly, the restriction that monks from the Zhou family were not allowed to leave the gate of Jiufengling Mountain was lifted.

From now on, if Zhou family monks want to leave Jiufengling mountain gate, as long as they have a legitimate reason, they can apply to the patriarch in advance, and they can leave after approval.

In this way, they stayed in the ancestral hall for more than an hour. After listening to the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde explaining various reform decisions and family rules, Zhou Chun and other Zhou family monks were able to leave the meeting.

And the announcement by the clan club in the ancestral hall this time also naturally aroused heated discussions among the monks of the whole clan.

Even when he was sitting in the Jingling Pavilion, Zhou Chun would hear several uncles and brothers discussing this matter.

He also expressed some of his own views, most of which were those he agreed with and supported.

No rules, no rules, at least in Zhou Chun's view, the changes made by Zhou Mingde and other senior members of the Zhou family all have positive effects, and the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages.

Now the monks of the Zhou family are discussing a lot, just because they are not used to these reform measures.

Once they get used to it, they won't care about it anymore.

(End of this chapter)