Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 143 0142: Clan Thought
After discussing the four drawings, Cheng Zongyang began the first thing, which was to discuss the warrior contract.

"Dear elders, currently, our martial arts hall has recruited seven people to be trained as martial artists. Among them, Zhang Guangwen is about to enter the rank. The slowest one will be able to enter the rank in about a month."

“But this is just the beginning. If Chengjia Village wants to become stronger in the future, the number of warriors in the village and the family must be more, not less.

Everyone has thought about how it would affect us if there were more foreign warriors. At present, the martial arts hall basically allows martial artists to practice martial arts if they have 1,000 contribution points. However, there are restrictions on subsequent advancement and martial arts learning.

But this is only a temporary solution, and the human heart can never be tested. The only person we can trust is ourselves. So, for the sake of peace of mind, I came up with a kind of oath contract. "

"This contract contains quite a lot of content. The purpose is to make those warriors who want to advance to the eighth rank and practice martial arts sign this contract. You can circulate it briefly first."

As he spoke, Cheng Zongyang handed a piece of material that looked like animal skin to his father.

"The Immortal Ancestor's Oath?" Cheng Guanghai looked carefully with the help of the oil lamp beside him. When he saw the four bright black characters on it, he was a little surprised: "Yang'er, did you write it correctly? It's ancestor, not immortal ancestor, right?"

After several months of study, Cheng Guanghai is now a semi-literate person who can read. Reading the words above is naturally not a problem.

He thought his son had made a spelling mistake.

Cheng Zongyang also said to the others who hadn't seen it yet:
"Yes, it is 'Xian', the Xian of the immortals. This is a contract similar to an oath to the ancestors. Of course, this ancestor is our Cheng family ancestor. Next, what I want to talk about is related to the sixth thing, the education of children in the village. That is the clan ideology."

"I plan to compile a story about the Cheng family's ancestors. That is, the Cheng family's ancestor was once an immortal master. So it is called the Immortal Ancestor's Oath."

When these words were spoken, everyone looked at each other in confusion.

Immortal Master? Immortal Ancestor?
Why does it look so much like a storybook?

Seeing the confused and speechless expressions of the crowd, Cheng Zongyang also smiled. He originally wanted to use "swearing to heaven", but he felt that it was too unreal and fake, so he decided to use something depressing and realistic - swearing to the ancestors of the Cheng family. He immediately continued:
"This oath contract requires those people to swear an oath to our ancestors..."

So, Cheng Zongyang told everyone the new "story" that he had carefully prepared over the past two or three months.

The general meaning is that the first generation ancestor of the Cheng family was a farmer who came from the wilderness and was an immortal cultivator. Later, because of his transformation into a mortal, he lived in seclusion in Daliang, thus giving rise to the bloodline of the Cheng family and the various branches that eventually extended from it. The Yufeng County lineage is one of these branches.

Later, the Cheng family's immortal ancestor successfully transformed into a mortal and returned to the wilderness world again to pursue the great way and seek immortality, but he also left behind the immortal ancestor's oath to protect the Cheng family.

The Cheng family is protected by the immortal ancestors. Those who sign their names on the contract cannot break their oaths, otherwise they will suffer punishment from the underworld. The most serious punishment is death and the soul will return to the wilderness.

Everyone was fascinated by this story.

Cheng Zongyang depicts a magnificent story of a farmer's son who gradually embarks on the path of cultivating immortals. What about the Yellow Maple Valley, what about the Chaos Star Sea...

It’s as if I still believe that there really is this world outside of this world.

If they were not still in this ancestral hall, they would really believe that this story was true.

"Zong Yang, I am really impressed by your ability to make up stories."

Zhou Zhendong, a cousin standing by, sighed. He felt as if he were there, thinking that he was the immortal who could fly and hide. Even now that he had come to his senses, he was still fascinated.

"Yeah, no wonder my brothers and sisters all say that Zong Yang has many stories and they can tell different versions of one story."

Zhou Zhenyuan also didn't know how to describe the story he had just heard.

Everyone looked at them with complicated expressions, and began to read the contents of the animal skin scroll one by one.

Cheng Guanghai shook his head and said, "If the ancestors of the Cheng family heard the story you made up, they would probably laugh their heads off. But Yang'er, this so-called oath is just a verbal and paper contract. If someone really wants to betray, how could he care about such an illusory oath?"

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "This is to give them a psychological hint first, suggesting the consequences of betraying the Cheng family, selling out the Cheng family's intelligence, leaking the Cheng family's core secrets, hurting the Cheng family, and damaging the Cheng family's interests! Besides, God is watching over us, and there are gods above our heads. What if? What if the ancestors of the Cheng family really bless us?"

After hearing this, everyone didn't dare to say anything more about this matter.

When it comes to gods and ancestors, they can only remain silent. They also think this method is good.

Although we know that the effect is not great, it may have some effect on some people with conscience and morals.

The human heart is always unpredictable and ever-changing. No restraint can restrain the human heart! It can only depend on conscience and moral bottom line.

For Cheng Zongyang, as long as the person has no ulterior motives, it doesn't matter if he signs the contract. For those who have ulterior motives, this method can be used to identify those with ulterior motives, and they can be trained or assigned important positions.

In the past two or three months, he has also drafted the content of the oath in detail.

Small problems don’t matter, and the content of the oath will not add any other punishment.

Therefore, the important punishments he distinguished were the ones just mentioned. No matter what the reason was, there was only one outcome - the soul returned to the wilderness!
The only downside is that it will continue to consume his lifespan. Although it is not much, but when accumulated, the amount is considerable!

For this kind of people, as long as they don't betray, these ten years are equivalent to their life span that they can't get back. If they don't sign the agreement and then betray again after ten years, it would be a loss.

But the content of the oath contract cannot be modified.

Now, for him, it doesn't matter whether he has the intention to betray others or not, as long as he can sign the contract, it's enough.

He was also prepared to use one year of his life to train 120 core personnel.

If he betrayed, he could get his life back with interest. If he didn't betray, it would be worth it to exchange one year of his time for 120 guards who had been loyal for ten years. It was impossible to really restrain a person for a lifetime.

In ten years, his cultivation should be able to protect the entire family!
At this time, Cheng Zongyang continued:

"Dear elders, the story of the Immortal Ancestor can be instilled into the children during their education, so that they can know the past of the Cheng family and agree with the development concept of the Cheng family. Slowly, when they grow up, they will have a stronger sense of belonging to the Cheng family."

"Also, I have written some books suitable for educating children in the past few months. They will be completed after the beginning of the year. After I teach those teachers, they will teach the children to further deepen the education of clan ideology. It can also cultivate the scholars needed by the family in a targeted manner.

Our people do not need to take exams to gain fame, so what they learn is naturally practical. The pinyin, mathematical calculations, basic knowledge of martial arts, hunting knowledge, and traditional Chinese medicine knowledge that I compiled can lay a foundation for children, so that they will not find it difficult to learn more advanced knowledge in the future.

Oh, yes, there is also the study of clan law, which talks about the importance of clans. Such as "On the big family above the small family", "A brief discussion on the huge influence of clans on personal development", "Martial arts masters cannot do without the support of clans", "The future of the family depends on the clan", "On the importance of having clans as backers", etc. I will write about these one by one in the future."

For a moment, everyone looked at Cheng Zongyang with all kinds of inexplicable and strange expressions in their eyes.

This man is truly a natural clan patriarch!

There are so many subtle means of control and brainwashing!
That’s awesome!
"Just hearing the titles of these books, they sound very profound and important." Zhou Hanchang scratched his head, quite amazed. After a while, when everyone was digesting the methods described by Cheng Zongyang, Cheng Guanghai nodded with a smile on his face: "Okay, thank you for your hard work. When are you going to make this oath contract?"

As a father, he naturally supported his son unconditionally. Since the position of clan leader would belong to his son in the future, he would not object!

"The eldest uncle of the clan law hall is responsible for explaining the oath contract to the personnel, and I will provide this contract. After the eldest uncle and I understand the process of the first person to sign it, it will be handed over to the clan law hall. At present, these seven practitioners do not need to sign it before they enter the rank.

With me here, the lower third-rank warriors can't make a difference in the village. Therefore, the target of this signing in the future is those who want to continue to move up after entering the rank and want to practice martial arts. Only after signing can we trust them and give them the resources and martial arts to practice the eighth-rank martial arts!

In addition, there are some non-warriors who are foreigners and may have access to core secrets.

In the final analysis, this contract is also equivalent to a confidentiality agreement and a ten-year contract of selling oneself. We should make it clear to the signers that it must be completely voluntary and cannot be forced. It is their own choice. Forcing them will only make them accumulate resentment, and we don’t need to do that. We can continue to sign after ten years, and we can also set them free.”

After listening to this, everyone nodded in agreement.

A ninth-grade warrior who doesn't know how to fight is, in plain words, just a person with abundant energy and great strength.

If you want to advance, you have to be loyal to the Cheng family for ten years in exchange for the opportunity to be trained and advanced. It is fair. Otherwise, the Cheng family would not waste resources to train someone who is unwilling to give anything.

Seeing that everyone agreed with his proposal, Cheng Zongyang told them the sixth thing about the situation outside.

When everyone heard that there was a war outside, they were all shocked and asked about the situation.

Cheng Zongyang informed everyone of the intelligence information he knew, and also proposed that the clan leader hold a meeting for the villagers tomorrow to let them know the situation in the outside world, thus completely eliminating their thoughts of going out.

Everyone agreed with this, but they continued to ask for details. Cheng Zongyang also explained them one by one.

However, Cheng Zongyang did not tell everyone his guess. Maybe it really has nothing to do with the situation in Tianduan Mountain?
Of course, this also gave Cheng Zongyang a reminder - to make some arrangements to avoid the crisis.

He planned to set up obstacles in the direction of entrance and exit.

The best thing was the geomagnetic stone that he had been considering for a long time. He didn't know whether he could buy it as he had not tried it yet.

The truly amazing effect of the geomagnetic stone is its complete appearance after the stone skin is completely removed.

Even though he was already a seventh-rank warrior and was in the center position, he would have almost fainted if Ma San had not been quick to stuff the stone skin into his hands.

From this we can see that it is impossible for ordinary people to resist the influence of the earth's magnet.

If it is possible to buy, he plans to purchase some of the area outside the inner mountain pass.

As for the inner mountain pass, there is no way to arrange it unless everyone carries stone skins, but this is obviously impossible, as their people basically have to go into the mountains to hunt and gather.

Only by placing it outside can we prevent people outside from coming in and discovering the situation here.

Who knows if those who fought will go into the mountains to search? If it is really related to the strange phenomenon in Tianduan Mountain, then it is possible that the thirteen royal families will go into the mountains to search.

The rest of the matter was simple. After informing everyone of this intelligence, everyone would be mentally prepared.

By the time Cheng Zongyang finished discussing these matters, more than an hour had passed.

Cheng Guangshan also recorded these things, and then couldn't wait to take away the three recipes to study.

The rest of the people also dealt with the matters at hand and prepared to take a rest.

The martial arts medicinal bath has now stopped, and the speed of practice can only be accelerated after the body tempering has dissipated.

This kind of item will only be provided free of charge to warriors who have signed a contract. Contribution points can also be exchanged later, but the contribution points required will be higher.

As more resources are available, all resources produced, except those provided by the Cheng family members, will be handed over to the warehouse for others to exchange with contribution points. Only in this way can the operation of Chengjia Village enter a good cycle.

As everyone left, Cheng Zongyang was the last one to leave and closed the door of the ancestral hall.

The current layout of the ancestral hall is just as he designed it. The Cheng Family Ancestral Hall is located on a small hillside, which is just right for overlooking the entire Henei and Hewai. The Zhou Family Ancestral Hall is located not far below.

There was a patrol team of guards both inside and outside the river. Outside the ancestral hall, Cheng Zongyang could see the lights of patrolling personnel holding torches, like fireflies in the dark night.

"If the geomagnetic stone can be purchased, we have to measure some places outside the river to ensure that the geomagnetic stone can prevent outsiders from entering the inner mountain pass area and ensure the safety of Chengjia Village. But in order to prevent villagers from entering by mistake, we have to set up a warning..."

Cheng Zongyang's mind was full of thoughts.

With the war, the safety of Chengjia Village is more important. And for a village of hundreds of people, it is enough to cultivate them well.

"According to the time, there should be something new inside. We can open the sixth grid and take a look."

Seeing that there was no one around, Cheng Zongyang walked into the mountains and entered the wilderness world at a certain place.

Appearing in the market hut, Cheng Zongyang immediately blocked out all the notification sounds and ignored other things. He first took out the gold sand from the gold panning workshop, the broken gold grains he found, and the four taels and five cents of gold from selling dried fish from the box beside him.

[Detection of gold sand items, purity 93%, weight liang qian. Can be purified to liang...]

[Detection found broken gold particles, purity 94%, weighing liang qian. Can be purified to liang qian...]

[A small gold nugget was detected, with a purity of 96%, weighing liang, which can be purified to liang...]

[Spend 100 taels of gold. Are you sure you want to open the sixth slot in the inventory? ]

【confirm cancellation】

After a series of operations, all the gold was purified into gold. When Cheng Zongyang saw the last prompt, he did not hesitate.

"Sure!"

Immediately, of the 107 taels and 6 qian of gold on the counter, only 7 taels and 6 qian of pure gold sand was left.

The next moment, Cheng Zongyang looked at the inventory.

(End of this chapter)