Zhou Bai didn't know that the sudden arrival of his vitality not only awakened him, but also awakened the Zhou family's ancestral spirit, saving the Zhou family from a disaster.

During this period, there was only one major event in the state, and that was the rural examination.

As for the small county town of Pingcang far to the north, they only have to focus on the one-third of an acre of land in front of their homes. The "New Deal" is the only core of everything in Pingcang.

After Zhou Bai destroyed the Mi Hun Village, Ji Hongze gathered county soldiers and clan soldiers from major families to suppress the bandits, launching offensives against the Twelve Cangshan Villages every day and night.

It is true that several stockades were destroyed and many bandits were wiped out, but the boundaries of Pingcang County were obviously in a lot of turmoil.

Some bandits could not hide in the mountains and fled to the mountains to cause trouble. Several small families' villages were broken into and plundered, causing people to panic.

It is against this background that the Zhao family is preparing to launch an action of revenge against the Zhou family. They will disguise themselves as Cangshan bandits and break into the Zhou family's land, burn, kill and loot, killing all the core members of the Zhou family.

Zhao Chun's only son and the direct heir of the Zhao family, Zhao Liangji, died in mysterious circumstances. He didn't look for anyone but the Zhou family.

After all, Zhao Liangji died on the way to assassinate Zhou Bai, and Zhou Bai could not escape the relationship no matter what.

This old man who lost his son in his later years and is close to madness doesn't care about "murderers will always be killed", he just wants revenge!

On August 25th, which happened to be the day he selected for the night attack, Zhao Chun personally led the team in an attempt to attack the Zhou family's ancestral home in one fell swoop.

"Master, we only got the news about the announcement of the provincial examination results on the tenth day of September last year. Why don't you wait until we are more fully prepared or call more dead soldiers back?" Before launching the plan, a confidant asked Zhao Chun.

Zhao Chun's calm face showed sadness and sternness. He shook his head and said: "Now most of the Zhou family's soldiers have gone to Cangshan to suppress the bandits, and the family land is empty. Furthermore, the state city released the results, and we, Pingcang, have been too slow to get the news. We can’t really postpone it until September.”

Before departure, Zhao Chun, as the head of the Zhao family, offered sacrifices in the ancestral hall and prayed for the help of the ancestors.

At the level of a county magnate, worshiping ancestral spirits already possesses some supernatural powers, such as personally protecting an important person in the family's descendants.

Now Zhao Chun has dragged out all the reasons for the matter and has been approved by a certain ancestral spirit. Since he is hostile to the Zhou family, the strategy of offending him to the end is not wrong.

So after setting off, Zhao Chun felt more confident. First, he was blessed by the ancestors, and second, he also invited his own family members to accompany him.

Although the price was very painful, he thought it was worth it as long as the Zhou family's residence was breached.

One hundred dead warriors and servants, plus two hundred bandits gathered together, are all ruthless characters who kill without blinking an eye. It should be absolutely foolproof to attack a small village clan guarding the void.

Indeed, when the dense crowd of men in black gradually cleared the sentry posts near the Zhou clan's territory, the Zhou clan members still didn't notice at all, showing a careless attitude.

Fortunately, during this period, even at night, the Zhou family ancestral hall was still brightly lit, because Zhou Mingxuan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, ordered that senior leaders and core clan members must take turns praying for Zhou Bai.

Even if you can't provide this Qilin'er with much luck for the family, you should be dedicated to it and don't slack off.

From the evening of August 25th to the early morning of August 26th, it was Zhou Mingxuan himself who took the lead on duty. He looked at the specially vacant space on the shrines and felt quite emotional.

Once he goes up in the future, he can immediately settle in the family spiritual realm without having to worry about suffering after death.

This makes Zhou Mingxuan not grateful to Zhou Bai, so every time he takes the lead in praying, he is full of energy and has no sleepiness at all.

Originally, he thought that tonight would be as peaceful as before, but unexpectedly, Yu Yueyun suddenly appeared in the ancestral hall, which made several clan elders very angry. 81 Chinese website

"You, you are a female, how can you enter the ancestral hall at will?"

"Besides, your surname is not Zhou!"

Hearing that the two clan elders showed no mercy at all, Zhou Mingxuan's face was extremely embarrassed. By saying that he was a adopted daughter, it meant that he was no longer the clan leader.

Of course, he also knew what the clan elders thought. It was indeed a taboo for a woman with a foreign surname to break into the clan temple without permission.

"Dad, please forgive my daughter for being rude. There is a large-scale enemy attack less than three miles outside the clan wall. Please prepare quickly to defend against the enemy!"

However, before Zhou Mingxuan took the initiative to ask, Yu Yueyun's urgent reminder shocked everyone.

What's going on? My Zhou family's reputation for suppressing bandits these days is no longer useful?

You must know that the Zhou family is a truly top-notch rural clan, and the clan area is protected by a courtyard wall. Which bandit family would dare to be so bold as to attack by surprise.

Before the clan members on duty at night came to report the news, many people did not believe it and even wanted to reprimand him.

Suddenly, there was a commotion behind them, and everyone's faces instantly turned pale.

It turned out that something happened to the ancestral tablets. The three spiritual tablets at the top fell straight down from the shrine. The orderly floating white smoke turned into a cloud of gray and black, and a shocking thunder sounded in the sky above the towering ancestral hall.

More members of the Night Watch clan could no longer remain calm at this time, but said in horror: "This is a warning from the three ancestral spirits of my Zhou clan!"

Zhou Mingxuan took a deep breath and ordered the ancestors' spiritual tablets to be returned to their original positions. He tremblingly and respectfully placed a stick of incense on the altar.

I don’t know what he muttered silently, but the red light on the sacred table in the ancestral hall was hidden, and the three ancestral spirits were actually half-honored.

I couldn't see much of his expression clearly, I could only see the undisguised eagerness.

"Everyone, our clan has successfully been promoted to county magnate!" Zhou Mingxuan immediately explained the various strange phenomena in the ancestral hall.

Everyone suddenly realized it and immediately became overjoyed. No wonder there was such a big movement.

You must know that the ancestral spirits enshrined by their villagers do not have these miraculous warning abilities. In the past, every twenty or thirty years of cultivation, they might be able to give a warning in a dream, and the message was not clear enough.

Now only the promotion of family status can explain why there are so many strange phenomena in the ancestral hall.

"Quiet! But everyone should also understand that ancestral spirits do not appear for no reason."

"On the first day we were promoted to county magnates, the enemy came knocking on our door. What should we do?!"

Zhou Mingxuan was radiant and spoke forcefully. He waved the scepter in his hand and questioned the clan members.

"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Defend your homeland!" the tribesmen roared in anger.

"The clan leader must win the election this time in order to improve our family's status. Before he comes back, we must protect our homeland!"

"Sound the alarm bell of the clan temple to wake up the entire clan to defend themselves against the enemy. The rest of the clan should take their positions, follow the command of the village guard team, and be sure to guard the clan wall gate." At this time, Zhou Mingxuan still did not mess up his position, but continued to arrange things in an orderly manner.

"Dong dong dong~!!!"

The buzzing alarm bell rang near the ancestral home, and in an instant, the lights were all on.

Most of the tribesmen were panicked, but they had been trained by the village protection team on a regular basis, and now they knew what to do according to the division of labor.

In this era, rural tribal areas, especially the core area where the ancestral home was located, were surrounded by courtyard walls, so if they were prepared in advance, it would be difficult for them to be captured in one fell swoop.

Of course Zhao Chun understood this truth. He set up his headquarters on a hilltop and specifically instructed his men to try not to alert too many people to defend.

Looking at his men slowly approaching in the wilderness, he was very satisfied that everything was going according to plan.

Because the clearance of several scattered settlements in the surrounding area was so smooth, the Zhou family inside did not have time to resist.

However, the Zhou family's land, which had been silent all this time, suddenly lit up with countless torches, and there were noisy shouts of death and defense, and there was no need to say anything more.

At this time, a gust of cold wind swirled around Zhao Chun, and his old but strong body trembled, as if he had received some message.

"Asshole, the ancestral spirits of the Zhou family were suddenly promoted collectively, and I, the ancestral spirit of the Zhao family, couldn't suppress it!"
Chapter completed!