Great Conquest Tribulation Hand

They lit incense and burned prayers, worshipping their ancestors. A group of Zhou clansmen performed three bows and nine kowtows before the spirit tablets of their forebears.

Zhou You, who was among the Western Branch, knelt and worshipped with them. He noticed that the Family Name on the ancestral hall's mural differed slightly from the Stone Drum in his possession.

The Zhou Family's origin—the first ancestor who had founded the lineage—was named Zhou Xianyi.

Zhou Xianyi was also the progenitor of everyone in the Left Prefecture Zhou Family of the capital.

Including Zhou You, the bloodlines flowing through all of them ultimately traced back to this ancestor.

The Family Name on the mural had been left behind by Ancestor Zhou. It was the orthodox lineage of the Zhou clan.

As for the origins traced by the Eastern and Western Branches, they should have begun with two brothers, Zhou Xuan and Zhou Su, six generations below Zhou Xianyi.

Zhou Xuan's descendants flourished, multiplying until they formed the main branch. But Zhou Su was not particularly fertile, and he had very few descendants. As time went on, even some of his prosperous collateral branches fell short.

Zhou Nanwang stood more than a hundred generations apart from the two. After returning to the family and tracing his ancestry, he discovered that the ancestor exiled to Northern Xuan had, astonishingly, been a descendant of Zhou Su.

Originally, this had been nothing. Could the Zhou Family not support a single clansman from a collateral branch?

Yet Zhou Nanwang had proved his worth. He broke through to become a Grandmaster on his own and won a Sealed Lord's favor, who entrusted him with important duties.

That made things interesting. Soon afterward, Zhou Nanwang proposed raising his ancestor's spirit tablet in rank and moving it back beside