Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 13 Three Reforms
Jiufengling, inside the Zhou family ancestral temple.

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

According to what he said, since the Zhou family is now officially passed down as an immortal cultivation family, then in the future it should continue its own heritage like other immortal cultivation families.

Therefore, the first point to be changed is to arrange the generation names and change the titles.

The heaven and earth are clear and bright, worship Taoism and protect the family, and keep a righteous mind and think about the source. These twelve generations are the Zhou family generation names agreed upon by Zhou Wende, the clan leaders, and the elders.

From now on, starting from Zhou Wende, all newborn babies will be named according to these twelve characters.

Because the ages of the Zhou family cultivators are all different, the specific generation name to be used is to start from Zhou Wende’s ancestors and divide them into generations of fifty years.

According to this division, there are currently two people in the Zhou family with the character "Ming", namely the supreme elder Zhou Mingde and the great elder Zhou Mingshan.

There is only one person from the "Chong" generation, who is the second elder Zhou Chongshan.

There are two people from the "Dao" generation, namely the third elder Zhou Daoquan and the clan leader Zhou Daoyi.

There are three people in the "Shou" generation, all of whom are over 100 years old in the Zhou family.

The generation name with the character "Jia" is the largest, with sixty-seven people.

There are also thirty-three monks of the "Zheng" generation, and this generation will be used for more than ten years.

Following this order, Zhou Chun, Zhou Yong and other monks of the same age, as well as 35-year-old Zhou Jingwen, were ranked as the "Zheng" generation.

And Zhou Fei, whom Zhou Chun had known before, was ranked in the "Jia" generation.

Zhou He, the master of Baozhi Peak, is also ranked in the "Jia" generation.

After the generation names are arranged, clan members within three generations must address each other as grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters.

Among peers, age is the basis of seniority.

As a result, Zhou Chun was ranked thirteenth among his peers of the "Zheng" generation, and was a little older than most of his peers.

In order to make it easier for every Zhou family cultivator to know the generations of their clan members, a manual was specially distributed to each Zhou family cultivator on the spot, which listed in detail the generation names of all the current cultivators in the Zhou family and their ranking among peers.

Those Zhou family cultivators who were not present will also be given the same rewards later.

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

Using blood ties as a bond and the names between relatives as buttons, all the Zhou family cultivators are connected together, allowing them to truly recognize the Zhou family as a big family.

Zhou Mingde and other senior members of the Zhou family have good intentions.

And because Zhou Mingde and other high-ranking members of the Zhou family took the lead in changing the name, even if some Zhou family cultivators felt uncomfortable with the sudden appearance of some elders of the uncle generation, they could only endure it and could not object.

Of course, in order to eliminate the discomfort in the hearts of these Zhou family cultivators, Zhou Mingde also made a serious statement on the spot that he would never allow any Zhou family cultivator to rely on his high seniority and old age to bully other clan members of lower seniority.

Furthermore, considering that some people's names may not sound nice after adding generation characters, the current Zhou family cultivators are allowed to still refer to themselves by their original names when they refer to themselves to the outside world.

In a word, generation names were created to unite the Zhou family cultivators, and they must never be allowed to become something that hinders the unity of the Zhou family cultivators.

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

That is to rank the existing Zhou family cultivators according to three factors: their cultivation, achievements, and qualifications.

The highest level is the supreme elder, followed by the clan leader, and then the elder.

Below the elders, there are three levels: core tribesmen, elite tribesmen, and ordinary tribesmen.

In the future, whether it is the annual welfare offerings, the right to exchange and use certain family resources, or the right to practice secret techniques, they will all be graded according to the identity level of each member of the Zhou family.

Even in the future, when there is a conflict between clan members and it is difficult to tell who is right and who is wrong, the clan leader and elders will be biased towards the party with higher status when judging right and wrong. According to this rule, now the masters of every spiritual peak in Jiufengling except Pagoda Peak will automatically become the core members of the clan.

The clan members who have reached the late stage of Qi Refining will automatically become elite members of the family, and the rest will be ordinary members.

This set of identity level recognition standards will be valid for the next ten years.

In other words, ordinary members of the tribe like Zhou Chun, as long as they can cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining within ten years, can be automatically promoted to elite members of the tribe.

Of course, if an ordinary member of the clan performs well, makes great contributions to the family, or has very good qualifications, even if his cultivation is not at the late stage of Qi Refining, he can be promoted to an elite member or even a core member of the clan.

Obviously, compared to just listening to the verbal ranking, this kind of identity and grade recognition has real benefits.

This set is somewhat similar to the elite disciples, inner disciples, and outer disciples in the sect, or it can be said that they are just named differently.

With this identity level grading system, in order to improve their own treatment and obtain more cultivation resources, ordinary and elite members of the tribe must work hard to improve their cultivation and accumulate merits in order to become core members of the tribe.

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

Later, Zhou Mingde mentioned the third change.

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

The Zhou family will not prevent their members from joining other sects in the future. On the contrary, they will provide certain help and give some subsidies.

But these are not free.

If a cultivator of the Zhou family joins the sect and accepts subsidies and help from the Zhou family, but fails to successfully build a foundation before the age of sixty and fails to become an inner disciple of the sect, he must return to the family and serve the family wholeheartedly in the future, or return the money and materials subsidized by the family.

At the same time, if a Zhou family cultivator wants to leave the family for personal reasons such as marriage, he must compensate the family for the various resources spent on him over the years, and he must not privately pass on the family's secrets or leak family secrets.

On the contrary, if a family brings a foreign relative to their family for personal marriage, the family will also give out a reward.

Judging from this third change, the Zhou family's family style is still extremely open-minded. At least Zhou Mingde and other senior executives are open-minded people.

At least Zhou Chun put himself in his shoes. If he were to join a certain sect, or leave his family for a beloved woman, he would be very grateful for the family's enlightened approach and would remember it for the rest of his life.

Of course he would never do such a thing.

Let’s not talk about whether it is easy to enter those immortal cultivation sects. Once you enter, if you are not a person with excellent qualifications, the treatment you receive may not be as good as in the Zhou family, and you may even be subjected to more exploitation and restrictions.

After announcing these three major changes, Zhou Mingde went on to announce some new clan rules.

For example, it is strictly forbidden to provoke large sects and families such as the Qinglian Temple in Jingguo, which are ruled by Yuanying cultivators and Jindan cultivators; it is strictly forbidden to take the initiative to provoke some forces in Jingguo that are ruled by Zifu cultivators; it is strictly forbidden to cheat in the name of the Zhou family, kill people and steal treasures, and ruin the reputation of the Zhou family, etc.

Correspondingly, the restriction on Zhou family cultivators not being allowed to leave the Jiufengling mountain gate was lifted.

From now on, if a cultivator of the Zhou family wants to leave the Jiufengling Mountain Gate, as long as he has a legitimate reason and applies to the clan leader in advance, he can leave after approval.

In this way, they stayed in the ancestral temple for more than an hour. After listening to the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde announce and explain various reform decisions and clan rules, Zhou Chun and other Zhou family cultivators were able to disperse and leave.

Naturally, what was announced at the clan meeting in the ancestral temple this time sparked heated discussions among all the cultivators in the clan.

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

He also expressed some of his own views, most of which were expressions of agreement and support.

There is no order without rules. At least in Zhou Chun's opinion, the changes made by Zhou Mingde and other senior executives of the Zhou family all have positive effects, and the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages.

The Zhou family monks are now discussing this issue heatedly, simply because they are not used to these reform measures.

Once they get used to coming here, they won’t care about it anymore.

(End of this chapter)