With Zhou Chun's status as a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, using such means to interrogate some low and middle tier cultivators in the Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment stages is indeed like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

However, doing so is undoubtedly the most efficient and obvious in effectiveness.

At that moment, those cultivators pointed out by Zhou Chun, facing the angry gazes of over a thousand Zhou Family cultivators in the ancestral shrine, scarcely a few could maintain their composure.

Without even needing Zhou Chun to exert more forceful means of coercion, most of them knelt on the spot, crying bitterly while confessing their crimes and begging for mercy.

Naturally, most of these people confessing their crimes truthfully were not true traitors to the family, or at least hadn't committed acts vastly betraying the family.

They simply violated family rules in a severe manner or had once been tempted to convey information after being bribed.

Such offenses, while inevitably punished by family laws, were still not punishable by death, and there remained opportunities for redemption.

Yet, even so, after listening to these people's words, Zhou Daoyi decided to conduct further investigations on them later to ensure they were not intentionally covering greater crimes with lesser ones to escape judgment!

Contrasting these individuals are the few who stubbornly protested their innocence.

They too knelt on the ground, wailing mournfully to defend themselves, claiming they were merely too shocked at Zhou Baisheng being a family traitor, causing their heartbeats and breathing to become erratic.

But in reality, they themselves knew such excuses were far from enough to convince a Nascent Soul Stage True Person!

And those Zhou Family cultivators truly loyal to the family were even less likely to believe such words.

How could a Nascent Soul Stage True Person wrongly accuse a few Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment cultivators?

Why were we not marked, and only you were?

On one side was the clan leader Zhou Chun, representing family authority, a highly placed Nascent Soul Stage True Person, and on the other were just a few Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment cultivators.

To an observer, who to believe goes without saying!

At this point, Zhou Chun need not use any forceful methods to make them confess; it's only necessary for Zhou Daoyi to come forward, using the pretext of suspecting them of betraying family interests to detain them for investigation.

After swiftly and decisively purging a group of pests from the family, Zhou Chun naturally aimed to use this as a lesson to instruct and educate the other Zhou Family cultivators present.

"You all have seen that even though the family has provided various cultivation conveniences to these people, they were still insatiably greedy, harming the greater good of the family for their small personal gains!"

"But just as you've witnessed, even if you think that when you make a mistake nobody knows and believe yourself flawless, the net of justice is vast and sparse yet never negligent, there's always a day when the truth will come to light!"

"Thus, for temporary small gains, albeit seeming to be a step ahead in cultivation, it actually ruins your long-term path of cultivation and destroys your future prospects and life!"

Reaching this point, Zhou Chun couldn't help but raise his arms in a call to action: "You must understand, today's Zhou Family is practically the most powerful force in Jingguo Country, able to provide any high-end cultivation resources that great powers can offer to all Zhou Family cultivators. You should know how to cherish this hard-won opportunity, seizing the moment to rise with the family!"

He finished with a decisive wave of his hand, "Seeking short-term small benefits to ruin one's life path is not an act of wisdom!"

These words resounded powerfully, shaking the souls of the listening cultivators.

Even those who tend to drift off during meetings would be moved by such profoundly impactful words.

Of course, this effect is limited to the present moment.

Once they leave the ancestral shrine, in the future, when encountering those small temptations Zhou Chun mentioned, whether these people will truly hold firm to their convictions and resist temptation is unknown.

Zhou Chun's intention was merely to help them broaden their horizons, expand their perspectives, and understand what constitutes long-term benefits versus ephemeral small gains.

Like Zhou Baisheng, who chose to betray the family over a few Foundation Establishment Pills, it was undoubtedly a foolish act.

For if he had only striven diligently, he would have had no small chance of applying for an exchange of such items in the Zhou Family, without needing to risk everything.

And in truth, he had just barely passed a hundred years of age at the time of his death, living shorter than even a Qi Cultivation Stage cultivator!

Family cultivators are unlike those barefooted loose cultivators, who seized no current opportunity would have none in a lifetime.

A Zhou Family cultivator should understand that his life cannot be traded for a mere few Foundation Establishment Pills!

They should know that the blood and surname they bear offer them long-term benefits far superior to some seemingly appealing gray benefits!

Besides educating and supervising internally, outside Zhou Chun must take decisive action.

After the words that shook the souls in the ancestral shrine had settled, he looked solemnly at everyone and said, "Henceforth, if you encounter anyone trying to lure or tempt you, you may report it to the family, and the family will, depending on the situation, reward you and publicly commend you to the whole clan!"

These words were not only for the members of the Zhou Family present but also a warning to external forces.

If external cultivators attempt to tempt Zhou Family cultivators into betraying the family in the future, the Zhou Family will certainly deliver a fierce counterattack, showing no leniency!

After conducting this round of internal investigation and education, Zhou Chun handed over the remaining matters to Zhou Daoyi to handle.

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