Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

The armies of various Holy Lands distinguish between ordinary and elite forces because of the limitations of martial talent. Some martial artists find it challenging to break through their martial limits in their lifetime, often stopping at the seventh or eighth level of body-unsealing. Even if the Holy Land wishes to solve this problem, it would require considerable effort. Moreover, if they have such means, they would prioritize using it to enhance elite disciples rather than ordinary soldiers.

However, Hexi now possesses this capability!

Hou Yuxiao looked at the more than ten thousand drops of Primordial Blood floating before him, a flicker of emotion flashing across his face. This is considered another strategy Hexi has mastered, following the Holy Army Code. With this Primordial Blood to support, Hexi's elite forces can be sustained endlessly.

The shadow cast over his heart by the loss of forty-two thousand elite troops dissipated substantially in an instant.

"Next, let's see what surprises the repair of Five Elements Heaven brings me."

Hou Yuxiao watched the Divine Lotus quietly floating within the Five Elements Heaven, feeling the seemingly nonexistent connection between them, still bearing some anticipation on his face.

Up to now, none of the functions produced by the four hundred and forty-eight petals of the Divine Lotus could be considered redundant, which made him even more expectant of the remaining four petals.

By the way, the ninth petal is black, let's see if the Karmic Obstacle can light it up!

Hou Yuxiao's expression shifted slightly, mobilizing more than three hundred million Karmic Obstacles, forming a black cloud, slowly flying toward the ninth black petal of the Divine Lotus. As with the previous process, the Karmic Obstacles continually poured into the Divine Lotus, and the ninth black petal began to brighten from its dim state, but unfortunately, this time it only lit up halfway before stopping.

More than three hundred million Karmic Obstacles could only light up half!

This means at least one billion Karmic Obstacles are required to fully illuminate the ninth black petal. Hou Yuxiao calculated for a moment, revealing a touch of helplessness.

Before coming to Nanjiang this time, his Karmic Obstacles were more than fifty million. After a campaign in Nanjiang, he killed countless Nanjiang soldiers, including martial arts experts, even Fragmented Realms great powers, yet the Karmic Obstacles only grew to three hundred million. To reach a billion Karmic Obstacles, he would need to commit many sins.

Fortunately, the world is already chaotic, so acquiring Karmic Obstacles isn't really a difficult task for him.

As for matters outside, with the Second Elder and Old Fifth managing them, Hou Yuxiao wasn't in a hurry to leave. Inside, the Five Elements Spiritual Power is extremely abundant, making cultivation exceptionally efficient. He also wanted to observe how the Divine Lotus plans to repair the Five Elements Heaven, so he continued to stay inside for the time being.

But as time slowly passed, he realized the repair process was indeed very slow. After an entire day, only the spatial barriers around the Five Elements Heaven were repaired. Previously, the entire Five Elements Heaven appeared gray, but now the specific boundaries were visible. Following this trend, the Divine Lotus should continue to clear the chaos within the space, separating the sky from the ground, eventually forming a complete space.

Of course, these are merely Hou Yuxiao's speculations, and the reality depends on the actual situation.

According to his calculations, the repair process will take at least a year, so he wasn't in a hurry and focused on cultivating within the Five Elements Heaven.

Hou Yuxiao's enemies have long escalated to the level of Sub-Saint of Martial Dao; he has witnessed numerous martial battles fought by Martial Dao Saints. Yet fundamentally, his cultivation is still only at the Fragmented Realm.

His Martial Dao Singularity has just shattered and is far from completely destroyed, let alone condensing a Star Sea Sacred Core. During this period, he improved his cultivation through merit, engaging with many Sub-Saints of Martial Dao, to the point where he was somewhat oblivious to his own situation.

The cultivation improved through merit is ultimately not his own, and the enhancement by merit is limited. After witnessing the battle between Emperor Father and Ni Han, he could determine that the level of Martial Dao Saint couldn't be elevated by merit alone.

The Divine Lotus also has its limits!

In the starry sky battle between Yuwen Father and Son, he clearly sensed that their power and the Divine Lotus were already at the same level. This indicates that no matter how much merit he possesses, the Divine Lotus cannot help him reach this level.

Cultivation did not last long, not because he didn't want to, but because someone came.

On the first day of September in the 1331st year of the New Yu Era

Hou Yuxiao emerged from the Five Elements Heaven and reappeared in the Temple.

"Brother, Clan Leader Hong Ju has arrived!"

It was Hou Yuduan who came; previously Hou Yuxiao instructed him to send someone to Hei Miao City to inform Hong Ju, and days had passed. Hong Ju's arrival speed was not particularly fast, but eventually, he arrived.

Hou Yuxiao's eyes flickered, sensing the temple periphery and detecting Hong Ju and his son's respectful stance outside the hall, a smile crept at the corners of his mouth.

"This Hong Ju is quite discerning!"

Leveraging Hong Ju and his son's rule over Nanjiang was both a necessity for Hou Yuxiao and an unavoidable approach. After two large battles, Hexi had almost turned Nanjiang into a river of blood. Imagining such posture, openly becoming the master of Nanjiang, it isn't hard to foresee that the twenty million people of Nanjiang have nearly no loyalty to Hexi and the Hou Clan, and they may even revolt.

Is there a solution?

Of course, kill them!

But slaughter is not what Hou Yuxiao wishes to see. In a more pleasant light, he wants a Nanjiang that can integrate with Hexi, a Nanjiang with a unified heart with the Hou Clan. In a harsher light, he still needs to use the twenty million people of Nanjiang. Pure massacre might achieve an enforced result, but once external forces intervene, this result would definitely become Hexi's key drawback.

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