Mountain Sea Calendar, year 3681.
After relocating to White Egret Marsh, the Zhou Family ceased all external conflicts, focusing solely on recuperating and restoring its strength.
It was said that the Zhou Family Old Ancestor, whose end was near, had brought out the savings he had treasured throughout his life to support the family's high-level cultivators in breaking through to higher realms. At the same time, he encouraged low-level clansmen with mediocre aptitude to cast aside all restraint and have more children, adding branches and leaves to the family tree.
This was precisely a two-pronged approach: replenishing high-level combat strength from above and bolstering the foundational population from below.
Not only that, the Zhou Family Old Ancestor personally met with the clan leaders of the Qingtong Lin Family and the Hanjiang Valley Yin Family outside White Egret Marsh, forging an alliance of harmonious coexistence and mutual development with them.
The process went very smoothly.
The Qingtong Lin Family and the Hanjiang Valley Yin Family were merely ordinary members among the countless humble families of the Heaven Origin Dao Sect. Their so-called clan leaders were only Golden Core Cultivators. Faced with a Nascent Soul True Person like the Zhou Family Old Ancestor lowering himself to befriend them, they naturally accepted with delight.
With that, the Zhou Family's unstable external situation seemed to have settled down.
At least, before the Zhou Family Old Ancestor passed away, the alliance formed by one Nascent Soul family and two Golden Core Families remained temporarily stable on the Southern Heaven Continent. In terms of strength, the Zhou Family Old Ancestor at the Nascent Soul Sixth Layer stood guard. In terms of connections, the forest and Yin Families could also be considered Dao Sect factions. No one would deliberately come knocking to cause trouble.
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