Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 307: Rectify the Family Style [Subscribe]

The appearance of the Wind Shadow Dragon Snake represents the Zhou family's success in breeding dragon-born monsters.

This is an extremely inspiring example.

It also gave Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi greater confidence in breeding more species of dragon-born monsters in the future.

It’s just that because the Wind Shadow Dragon Snake has not yet formed a population, and they don’t want outsiders to know the news in advance, this news has not been announced among ordinary members of the tribe. Only elder-level monks and some core members of the tribe know about it.

The current Zhou family is getting stronger and stronger every year, and its influence is growing.

But the attention it received has also increased a lot.

Many forces want to know how the Zhou family was able to take off so quickly.

Over the years, the number of people caught by the Zhou family for spying on intelligence alone cannot be counted on one hand.

As the saying goes, a tall tree attracts the wind. This is exactly the case.

Therefore, Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde and other senior members of the Zhou family gradually began to consciously change the family's style of doing things and no longer wanted to be as high-profile as before.

In the past, the Zhou family wanted to do things in a high-profile manner because they wanted to build their reputation and increase their popularity.

The Zhou family is already famous enough now, so there is no need to continue to be high-profile.

An incident that happened soon made Zhou Chun and other senior members of the Zhou family determined to reorganize the family.

It turned out that on this day, a foundation-building cultivator from a small family suddenly came to the Zhou family and said that he wanted to apologize for the reckless behavior of his younger generation.

"It was the young man in the clan who was ignorant and offended the noble Taoist friend. Yue has already severely taught him a lesson and punished him to face the wall for ten years. I hope that Master Zhou can be magnanimous and forgive that boy and the Yue family!"

In the guest room of the Zhou family, an old man with white hair and gray clothes was bowing to Zhou Chun repeatedly with a very humble attitude.

When Zhou Chunchu heard the gray-clothed old man's words, he was also surprised and didn't understand why the other party said that.

Although according to the previous introduction of the gray-robed old man, the Yue family he founded was just a small family with no more than thirty cultivators, which was far from comparable to the Zhou family.

But the other party is a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building after all. Why would he come to apologize in such a humble manner for no reason?

So he hurriedly asked the other party for the specific reason.

It wouldn't matter if he didn't ask, but once he asked, Zhou Chun couldn't help but feel angry.

It turned out that just a few days ago, a descendant of the gray-clothed old man went out for an adventure with his friends and happened to run into the two descendants of the Zhou family. The two sides clashed over a few spiritual herbs and ended up fighting.

The natural result was that the gray-clothed old man's descendants suffered losses and almost lost their lives.

After the injured younger generation returned to the Yue family, he informed the old man in gray of the reason for his injury, hoping that the old man in gray would seek justice for him.

But when the gray-robed old man learned that the cultivator who had a conflict with his descendants was from the Zhou family, he was shocked first. He was even more annoyed that his descendants were ignorant of the consequences and brought disaster to himself and his family.

That's why the old man in gray came to the Zhou family to apologize today.

However, this is what made Zhou Chun angry.

He had never heard the two Zhou family cultivators mention anything about this conflict, and knew absolutely no information about it.

It is obvious that those two people deliberately concealed this matter!

This kind of concealment has already violated family rules.

Because according to the clan rules, any family monk who goes out on an adventure and makes an enemy with someone must truthfully recount the situation upon returning.

this point is very important!
In the past, many immortal cultivation families were destroyed and exterminated because their members provoked powerful enemies that should not be provoked, causing the entire family of cultivators to suffer.

Although the Yue family is just a small family and poses no threat to the Zhou family.

However, this behavior of not reporting the situation is itself very bad.

Another point is that the two Zhou family monks deliberately concealed the matter. It is very likely that they were the unreasonable party in this conflict, and then they chose to conceal it in order to avoid punishment from the family.

This kind of thinking is also something that clan leader Zhou Chun cannot tolerate.

However, although he was furious, Zhou Chun did not show any anger on his face.

No matter how he decides to deal with the two tribesmen according to the tribe rules, he must not show this in front of outsiders.

He immediately waved his hand and said, "Fellow Daoist Yue, you are too polite. I have heard about this matter from two clansmen, but I didn't expect there were such details. I am a little negligent in discipline."

After that, he said with a serious face: "Please rest assured, Brother Yue, as long as there is no bullying or murder among the conflicts between these juniors, Zhou and others, as elders, will not interfere too much. Otherwise, these juniors will rely on the protection of the family and will be arrogant!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou is kind-hearted and magnanimous. I admire him!"

The old man in gray bowed to Zhou Chun with a look of admiration on his face, speaking flattering words.

For an old hand like him, such changes in expression and tone of voice are naturally possible and there would not be any abnormality at all.

After flattering Zhou Chun like this, the old man in gray was very tactful and took his leave, seeing that Zhou Chun really had no intention of venting his anger on the Yue family.

As soon as the old man in gray left, Zhou Chun quickly had the two clan members who had violated clan rules summoned to Zhongping Hall.

"Zhou Zhengxin, Zhou Xinli, do you two admit your guilt?"

In the Zhongping Palace, Zhou Chun looked at the two members of the Zhou family with a stern expression and an extremely harsh tone.

This made the two young members of the Zhou family, who had always seen his approachable side, panic in their hearts and look shocked in an instant.

But the two were not easily frightened and would not confess their guilt so easily.

The older Zhou Zhengxin, relying on the fact that he and Zhou Chun were of the same generation and his father was also a cultivator in the family, immediately plucked up the courage to play dumb and said, "Why do you say that, Thirteenth Brother? I wonder what I did wrong to make Thirteenth Brother so angry?"

"Humph, you still dare to act stupid with me!"

Zhou Chun's face darkened, and he immediately stared at him and shouted, "Then tell me, when you two went out on adventures together before, did you ever fight with anyone? Did you ever hurt anyone else?"

Hearing this, Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli turned pale and instantly understood why Zhou Chun called them over.

The two men immediately fell to their knees, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Patriarch, please forgive me. I know I was wrong, please forgive me!"

"It's easy to say forgive you!"

"The Zhou family's clan rules have been taught to you since you began to read and write. If you don't know them by heart, you won't be able to graduate from the family school."

"Tell me, why did the elders and I set up such a rule in the family school?" Zhou Chun looked at the two people on the ground with a gloomy face, his words full of anger.

Since he took over as the head of the Zhou family, he has put a lot of effort into educating the younger generation of monks in the family.

He could not completely change the social trends of the world, but as long as he had the ability, he wanted the younger generations of cultivators in the Zhou family to be more upright and abide by the rules, and not commit crimes.

Therefore, whether it is clan rules or ideological and moral education, he has implemented his own ideas into them.

But now, the behavior of Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli undoubtedly went against his expectations. How could he not be angry?

He looked at the two of them with anger in his eyes and shouted, "Today I want to ask you, are those clan rules that you know by heart just a piece of waste paper in your eyes? Do you still think clan rules exist? Do I, the clan leader, still exist?"

Zhou Chun was furious, and all of his pressure as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and the majestic aura he had developed from being in a high position for a long time were released at once.

Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli faced this pressure head-on. Even though they had already knelt on the ground, they still couldn't bear it. They immediately fell down trembling with fear.

"Please spare us, Chief, please spare us. We will never dare to do it again!"

The two of them begged for mercy again and again, they were completely frightened.

Seeing the two of them in such a miserable state, Zhou Chun couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, and his anger subsided.

He immediately suppressed his momentum and said in a deep voice: "Get up first and tell me everything you have been hiding. If I find out that you have dared to hide even a word, you know the consequences!"

"Yes, yes, thank you for your kindness, Chief!"

The two thanked each other while supporting each other to stand up, and tremblingly told Zhou Chun what had happened.

Things happened just as Zhou Chun had known and guessed before. Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli were on an adventure when they discovered a group of Yue family monks who were collecting herbs, and then a conflict broke out.

But according to Zhou Zhengxin, they were not determined to obtain those elixirs and had never thought of snatching them away.

However, the Yue family monks had a preconceived notion that they wanted to steal the elixir, and said a lot of unpleasant words, which eventually angered the two men so much that they released their spiritual pets to fight with them.

Of course, Zhou Zhengxin and his companions won the battle in the end.

However, the two also knew that such a thing was not honorable. In addition, they believed that the Yue family was a small family and the cultivator of the Yue family had "made the mistake first", so they would not dare to speak out afterwards.

So he decided that it was better to have less trouble than more and deliberately concealed the matter.

To be honest, Zhou Zhengxin and his friend's thoughts are normal and not a big mistake.

And this incident did not cause any serious consequences.

But clan rules are ruthless and will not change based on people’s thoughts.

Violating clan rules is violating clan rules. No matter how many reasons there are, it cannot be an excuse to escape punishment under clan rules.

What's more, the reasons given by Zhou Zhengxin and others are totally untenable.

Their real intention in concealing the truth is to evade punishment according to clan rules. They are committing the crime knowingly!

According to the Zhou family's clan rules, those who knowingly commit crimes should be severely punished.

After Zhou Chun understood the details of the incident, he looked at the two of them with a heavy face and said, "According to the mistakes you made, if you confessed voluntarily, the family would at most punish you with a year's welfare and ask you to send some healing pills as an apology!"

"But you should never, ever, take chances and deliberately conceal this matter and violate clan rules!"

At this point, his eyes flashed with anger, and he couldn't help but raise his voice and said, "I remember that in the clan rules manual in the family school, there are relevant notes and explanations behind each clan rule. The purpose is to let the clan members understand why this rule exists."

"You knew clearly that hiding the fact that you had made an enemy of someone might bring disaster to the family, but you still did it knowingly. This behavior is truly unforgivable!"

As he said this, he waved his hand to stop Zhou Zhengxin from making excuses.

He looked at him coldly and said, "You don't need to say anything more. The clan rules are the clan rules. They will not change because of the strength of the people you are enemies with!"

After that, he began to pronounce the verdict: "According to the family rules, those who deliberately concealed the fact that they had made enemies with others, if it did not cause serious impact on the family, should have their family benefits suspended for more than five years and be confined for more than three years!"

"In view of the improper attitudes of the two of you, in addition to suspending the family benefits for five years, I will also extend your house arrest to five years!"

After the verdict was pronounced, Zhou Chun waved his hand and said, "For the next five years, you will stay inside the family gate and not step out of it without my order!"

"Yes, junior obeys your command!"

Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli looked at each other, both with regret in their eyes, and lowered their heads to accept the punishment.

Although the two are still young, this punishment is definitely enough to make them remember it for the rest of their lives.

Even their future path may become more difficult because of this punishment.

This is the price for violating clan rules!

No rules, no standards.

If a family's clan rules cannot be strictly enforced, they will not be enough to deter clan members.

After Zhou Chun punished Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli, he quickly ordered people to post the punishment on the bulletin board outside the Zhongping Hall.

In this way, every member of the Zhou family who comes to Zhongping Hall will see this punishment, which will invisibly increase their awe of the family rules.

But this alone is not enough to satisfy Zhou Chun.

Because he knows one thing very well: when you find a cockroach in the house, there must be many more cockroaches in the dark corners that you don’t know about.

Would Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli, two younger generations of the Zhou family, be so optimistic that they deliberately concealed the fact that they went out and made enemies with others? Would other members of the Zhou family have done the same?

The Zhou family now encourages their members to go out on adventures. Zhou Chun will basically approve anyone who applies to go out with this reason, as long as their cultivation ability is not too bad.

He also increased the time the Zhou family members could go out each year several times.

His original intention in doing so was to broaden the horizons and knowledge of the cultivators in his family, improve their personal abilities, and prevent them from working in isolation and becoming disconnected from the world of cultivation.

But he absolutely did not want his kindness to be abused by the monks in the family and thus bring disaster to the family.

So after punishing Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Xinli, Zhou Chun pondered for a long time and decided to increase the importance of this matter. He convened a high-level family meeting of the family elders to find ways to rectify the family style and try to prevent similar incidents from happening.

At the same time, this is also a good opportunity to sort out the current situation of the family and solicit the opinions of the elders on the future development of the family.

(End of this chapter)