The death of Zhang Liang, the Zhou Family's sole Formation Master, had indeed caused quite a stir within the family.
The main reason was that, just a few years earlier, he had completed the construction of the Heavenly Yi Azure Dragon Formation, a Forbidden Grand Formation of that level. He had made a tremendous name for himself among the Formation Masters of the entire Jing Country Cultivation World and had earned the admiration of many Zhou Family cultivators.
At the same time, he had been the first person after the Zhou Family's new policies to become an elder while possessing both Violet Palace Stage cultivation and the status of a Formation Master. He was also an outsider married into the family.
These two matters alone had been enough to make him the focus of considerable attention within the family.
And when Zhou Mingde personally announced at Zhang Liang's memorial service that his descendants would all receive Foundation Establishment Pills for ten generations, that decision directly elevated his prestige to a new height.
While the decision shocked many Zhou Family clansmen, it also deeply stunned outsider cultivators such as Xu Fu.
Before this, none of these outsiders had dared believe that the Zhou Family would make such a promise for a single outsider cultivator!
For certain reasons well known among the Zhou Family's outsiders, the Zhou Family usually appeared to treat these outsider cultivators equally, without mistreating them in any way.
However, when it came to competition for certain important strategic resources, these outsider cultivators were always a tier below the Zhou Family's own cultivators.
Unless they truly possessed excellent aptitude or had rendered outstanding service, they could basically forget about exchanging for such important resources as Foundation Establishment Pills and spiritual items for opening the Violet Palace.
Spiritual items such