Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Having finished laying out his findings and proposed solutions in one breath, Zhou Chun didn't wait for the senior members of the family to express their opinions.

He immediately continued, "Furthermore, I also suggest that our family's young cultivators receive formal schooling, changing the current method where each is educated by their own parents or relatives, to instead have cultivators skilled in teaching within the family take on this role."

"By doing this, not only can we ensure that they all have the same starting point in their youth, but it will also promote emotional bonds between peers, fostering unity and brotherly love as they grow up!"

After finishing this statement, Zhou Chun finally closed his mouth and waited for the elders' judgment.

"I believe these are all feasible strategies."

Before long, the Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi nodded in agreement, being the first to voice his support for Zhou Chun's suggestions.

He spoke solemnly, "When we were in Fengguo, many clan members used to send their offspring without Spirit Root Aptitude to be raised by mundane relatives. Now that the family has established a nursery to foster these children collectively, allowing them to visit and grow close to their kin at any time will undoubtedly set their minds at ease."

"Additionally, the issue of taking numerous concubines to increase offspring was a necessary means to boost family population when a new cultivation family is established. It's only because the Zhou Family's situation is unique that we didn't employ this method before!"

"As for the unified school education for the young cultivators, indeed, that was an oversight on my part, for not having arranged it in time. This is, after all, something every family should do!"

The issue of childbirth was always a major concern in Zhou Chun's previous lives.

But that was in relation to an entire nation or race.

In fact, those without any burden of raising children would always have them if they wanted and could.
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Some Zhou Family cultivators were reluctant to have offspring because they worried that raising children would consume their energy and affect their own cultivation.

If the family were willing to take care of the offspring for them, eliminating this concern, and there was a reward for bearing children with Spirit Root Aptitude, why wouldn't they be willing to procreate!

After all, having offspring who were cultivators meant that even if they fell or passed away, their lifetime's hard-earned achievements would have someone to carry on.

If they were fortunate enough to have a talented descendant, they might even rise in status because of their child's success, and thereafter, rely on their offspring to support their own cultivation!

The suggestions Zhou Chun made at this time were highly feasible and unlikely to cause any serious problems.

Therefore, not only did Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi quickly voice his agreement with Zhou Chun's suggestions, but the other Zhou Family elders also swiftly expressed their support.

Once the proposals were unanimously approved, Zhou Chun spoke again, "Now, we are left with the previous issue concerning the establishment of a security team. What do the elders think?"

"Security teams are actually common among powerful forces; they are just known by different names."

"In my opinion, establishing such a team is feasible, but the area of protection and patrol should not be too large, ideally within a hundred miles of the family's gate."

"This way, if we do encounter any significant dangers and need to call for help, we elders can arrive at the scene more quickly."

This time, it was the Second Elder Zhou Chongshan who first responded to Zhou Chun, sharing his perspective.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Fifth Elder Zhou Jiahe immediately followed with his agreement, "I concur with the Second Elder, and I suggest when selecting members for the security team, we prioritize those experienced elder clan members and provide each member with an additional subsidy reward."

"I also agree with this."

"I agree as well."

The Third Elder Zhou Daoquan and the Fourth Elder Zhou Jiarui also quickly added their opinions.

Seeing this, Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi then immediately declared, "Then, let's present the decisions we made today for review by the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde!"

"Good."

All the Zhou Family elders exchanged glances and unanimously voiced their approval.

After the meeting, Zhou Chun personally took on the task of detailing everything discussed at the meeting onto paper and then accompanied Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi to meet with Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde.

After Zhou Mingde finished reading the proposal personally drafted by Zhou Chun, he pondered for merely about fifteen minutes before nodding and saying, "All right, I think all these suggestions are quite good. You all can proceed with confidence!"

With such approval from him as the Supreme Elder, Zhou Chun immediately announced to the entire clan upon returning and began the selection of stewards and office workers for the various halls.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong with this matter, every steward and even office worker was personally interviewed and selected by Zhou Chun.

According to his plan, the Internal Affairs Hall was responsible for managing various miscellaneous tasks within the family's mountain gate, such as defending the "Spirit Cleansing Pavilion," guarding the mountain protection formation, and supervising the cultivation area for Loose Cultivators, among other tasks performed within the mountain gate.

The competency requirements for stewards of this hall weren't high, but they absolutely must be loyal, reliable, and just.

The External Affairs Hall was in charge of arranging the family's external tasks; all tasks requiring dispatching clan members were listed with the External Affairs Hall, either to be taken on by Zhou Family Cultivators themselves or to be executed by suitable personnel arranged by the hall's stewards.

The competency requirements for stewards of this hall were similar to those of the Internal Affairs Hall; they also needed to be just and stern.

The Hundred Beasts Hall, mainly referring to the Beast Garden, was responsible for the breeding and management of various Demon Beasts owned by the family, including tasks such as beast taming, breeding, and capturing. The stewards must be proficient in these skills.

The Hundred Medicines Hall corresponded to the Spirit Medicine Garden of Hundred Medicines Peak, including several Zhou Family Alchemists. This hall was responsible for caring for and managing the family's Spirit Medicine Garden, comprising tasks such as Alchemy, cultivation of Spiritual Medicine, and collection of herbs. The stewards had to be sufficiently skilled in the relevant arts.

The Hundred Arts Hall corresponded to other skills like Artifact Refining, Talisman Making, and Formation Arts. Zhou Chun intended to gather cultivators with relevant skills from the Zhou Family, invest family resources, and help them improve their skill levels to see if it was possible to cultivate individuals of sufficient caliber.

There was no need to say much about the remaining financial, oversight, and penal duties.

About a month later, Zhou Chun had selected the eight stewards.

The steward of the Internal Affairs Hall was appointed to the core clan member Zhou Jiacheng.

The steward of the External Affairs Hall was appointed to the core clan member Zhou Jiagong, who ranked eighteenth in the "Jia" generation.

The steward of the Hundred Beasts Hall was appointed to the core clan member Zhou Zhengyong.

The steward of the Hundred Arts Hall was appointed to the core clan member Zhou Jiawei, the inventor of the Touch of Despair.

The steward of the Hundred Medicines Hall was appointed to the core clan member Zhou Zhengyuan, the best Alchemist among the Zhou Family currently.

Zhou Chun had not yet made a choice for the financial steward and was temporarily holding the position himself.

The oversight steward was appointed to the elite clan member Zhou Zhengjing, a rather upright female cultivator.

Zhou Chun was also holding the position of the penal steward himself.

In this way, the first stewards of the five major halls were all core clan members, a choice made by Zhou Chun after comprehensive consideration.

He also wanted to ensure that the newly restructured halls operated smoothly, so he necessarily had to make certain decisions.

Once the stewards and related office staff for each hall had been chosen, the Zhou Family's affairs began operating under this new system.

For this reason, Zhou Chun even put the two secret techniques he was cultivating on hold, dedicating himself entirely to handling the family's affairs, ensuring the transition between the old and new systems encountered no issues.

By the time he finally helped all the stewards and office workers become familiar with the related procedures and could take it easy, the results were in for the two Zhou Family Cultivators who had entered closed-door cultivation with the Spirit Ascension Fruit to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The outcome could be described as a mix of joy and sorrow.

The joyous news was that Zhou Jiapeng had successfully reached Foundation Establishment, adding another cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Zhou Family.

The sad news was that another "Jia" generation cultivator had failed and only managed to leave a will in the secret chamber before he regrettably passed away.

In the end, the five Spirit Ascension Fruits the Zhou Family had purchased for eleven thousand eight hundred Spirit Coins brought the Zhou Family two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

But at the same time, it cost the Zhou Family the direct loss of two core clan members at the twelfth layer of the Qi Refinement Realm and left one core clan member crippled!