Ordinary People: Starting with the Chen Clan

In the past two years, he has searched through almost the entire second and third floors of the Scripture Tower. The third floor does not contain any profound inheritances, but rather some incomplete secret techniques.

Not only are they unsuitable for cultivation, but some are also extremely dangerous. Keeping them is only to broaden the horizons of the clansmen. As for why they are placed at the highest level, it is only because some children who are just starting out are afraid that they will not know the importance of things and will try them recklessly.

The main purpose of keeping Elder Mo, an elder of the family, inside the Sutra Tower was to prevent anyone from entering without permission.

With the aura of a child prodigy, Chen Xuanzhou could come and go with ease.

But those were indeed secret techniques that required strict supervision. They were either less than half complete or had incredibly outlandish ideas, which made him admire the creativity of his predecessors.

Aside from giving him some ideas, it offered no real help, leaving him greatly disappointed.

He thought that since he was a chosen one, he should at least be given a few heaven-defying secret techniques.

Even if we can't piece together a top-tier inheritance from the demon realm like the Brahma Saint True Technique, we should at least come up with a top-tier technique like the Azure Origin Sword Technique, which can both fight and assist in breaking through realms.

The result was that he was left with nothing but disappointment.

Since there is no stroke of good fortune, given his current resources, only a systematic cultivation method is likely to innovate and ensure the Chen family's fundamental inheritance.

With the Ascension Ceremony just around the corner, he remained completely calm.

Even with his current Qi Refining Level 10 cultivation, without the Awakening of Insects and the Prison Suppressing Stele, he is absolutely confident of getting into the top ten. If he wants to show off his skills, getting first place wouldn't be difficult at all.

Even if a powerful expert at the thirteenth level of Qi Refining came, it would be the same.

Putting everything else aside, just his spells and talismans alone are enough to make few Qi Refining cultivators able to fight him head-on.

But the thought of what would become of the Chen family of Xizhou after I left...

This caused him some worry. The Chen family's approach to raising the younger generation was still the most traditional method: the elders of the family would provide initial education, and then the children would basically be left to their own devices.

Most families would close their doors and give love and care to their own children.

The advantage of doing this is that it concentrates limited resources on a few well-rounded direct descendants, ensuring that, unless they are extremely unlucky, there will be no generational gaps or the collateral branches become too powerful.

However, this was clearly not in Chen Xuanzhou's interest.

With such a stable number of households, how can the population increase and the family gain new blood?

Since the incense burner appeared, he has never stopped planning for the development of his family, but he has only been writing and drawing on jade slips.

The only thing they did slightly was to cultivate new blood for the family.

However, apart from doing it on a small scale on his own, he did not expand it on a large scale or offer suggestions to the clan elders or heads of various branches.

If the results are unsatisfactory, given that although he was somewhat precocious, he didn't achieve much, the family elders will likely have something to say about it.

Because raising children is the foundation of a family business, and there are too many interests involved. To be effective, we must start from the root. Otherwise, merely changing the surface is completely insignificant.

The second issue is naturally the timing. The Ascension Ceremony is the top priority, and everything else takes a backseat.

Once you become a Foundation Establishment Ancestor, changing things as you wish is just a matter of a word.

Now, after two years of his encouragement, all the kids under the age of eighteen have made significant progress, so he naturally has more confidence when he speaks.

Most importantly, you're just idling around anyway!

Since they were going to do it, they might as well do something big. Dividing a branch into nine houses seemed like utter nonsense to him; he had no power to change the older generation now.

But the child can still be saved.

He took out a jade slip from his storage bag, probed it with his divine sense, and began to make some modifications. It contained information he had observed over the years about various problems existing within the different branches.

Of course, he never intended to send the entire jade slip up.

That's a bit too much meddling. Managing a family can only be done slowly, especially since he's not even an adult yet.

His main focus was on cultivating the family's children, and then expanding on related matters concerning the various branches of the family.

This can also be seen as a test by him, to see how each household reacts.

At the same time, it's also to get a feel for things before taking action, to figure out which properties are usable and which should be suppressed.

Reforms always leave behind some stubborn, entrenched problems. As for whether you are one of them, that's up to whoever wields the knife to decide.

As for the specific results of the operation, he didn't care. Anyway, he was idle now. If he succeeded, he could cultivate a few more Foundation Establishment seeds; if he failed, he would suffer no loss.

Not only in terms of cultivation, he also wondered if he could cultivate a few geniuses in management and business. Given the current state of the branches, of course, he didn't need them, but such talents needed to be prepared in advance.

Don't wait until the shop is fully established before rushing things into action; that's easy to fall into a trap. The branch's foundation is weak, so he still needs to be careful.

Moreover, these people naturally need to select members from their own faction so that they can use them with confidence.

Now he knows which families supported his entry into Yellow Maple Valley, but that doesn't mean they will stand by his side completely.

Recommendation is one thing, but it involves the interests of each branch of the family and some behind-the-scenes power struggles. What merits does he, an unknown member of the sixth branch of the family, have to make these people keep supporting him?

After gathering his thoughts and the jade slip, Chen Xuanzhou walked out of the courtyard and headed towards the courtyard of the three clan elders.

When Chen Xuanzhou arrived outside the courtyard, he saw the three elders lying on a rattan chair, basking in the sun.

"What a rare guest! Xuan Zhou actually had time to come to my place; it seems there's something important going on!"

"Hehe, the elder is complaining that Xuanzhou doesn't come to visit anymore. Actually, Xuanzhou has been thinking about it, but he was worried that the elder was too busy and might disturb him."

Look, the weather is nice today, so I specially prepared a pot of millet wine for the clan elders to taste and see if it's thirty years old.

If not, I'll go back and burn off all that fat on Chen Xuannian's body!

"Oh, 30-year-old wine is hard to find. Let me taste it."

Upon hearing about the good wine, Chen Shangyu immediately perked up, instantly forgetting his petty resentment towards Chen Xuanzhou.

He took the jade wine pot from Chen Xuanzhou, opened the cap, and took a deep breath.

A flush rose to her face, and she quickly took out a wine gourd from her bosom, pouring the wine from the flask into it while muttering, "How could I waste such a treasure like this..."

After carefully putting the wine away, Chen Shangyu lay back down on the bench and dozed off.

This... Chen Xuanzhou was momentarily at a loss for words.

Fortunately, the muscle memory from his past life as a lackey was still there, and he subconsciously held onto the recliner and gently rocked Chen Shangyu.