Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 71 - 058, Holy Maiden Summons [Request for Follow-Up Read]

New Yu Era 1321, December 30

Main Hall of the Hou Mansion

Hou Yuxiao was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on the main seat, his body emitting a layer of sharp black Gangsha, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

"Gang Qi, Gangsha, Dan Gang—these are called the Three Realms of Gang Qi. Ultimately, these three stages have not yet escaped the category of Gang Qi. Whether it is Gang Qi, Gangsha, or Dan Gang, all require a continuous supply of blood essence to build, which means that each cultivation session consumes a large amount of blood essence!

It seems that during this stage of cultivation, replenishing qi and blood is crucial.

This is going to start costing money!"

After a while, Hou Yuxiao opened his eyes, looking at the gradually weakening qi and blood within his body, and sighed lightly.

Martial Artists naturally rely on elixirs for replenishment, and elixirs in turn depend on rare and spiritual medicines as materials. The older the spiritual medicine, the higher the essence it contains. Therefore, people categorize these spiritual medicines into six levels based on their age.

From 10 to 50 years, they are categorized as third-class spiritual medicines; from 50 to 200 years as second-class; and from 200 to 500 years as first-class.

Earth Level spiritual medicines have ages beyond 500 years, Heavenly Level over a thousand years, and as for Divine Level, those are legendary. Whenever such rare treasures appear in the world, Holy Lands fight tooth and nail for them, leaving no chance for others.

The reason for Hou Yuxiao's sigh was naturally the price of these spiritual medicines!

Generally speaking, a ten-year-old basic level medicinal herb starts at a minimum price of over fifty silver, and the ones at the age limit of the third class can even reach around five hundred silver, which is outrageously high.

Just the raw materials alone are so expensive, not to mention the elixirs processed by pharmacists. Up until now, the only people in the Hou family who have taken the elixirs are the five siblings, along with the relatively younger Hou Fei, Hou Ying, and Hou Cun.

And they take only the cheapest Body Strengthening Pill!

Don't misunderstand; 'cheap' here is a relative term. The Body Strengthening Pill, as the name implies, is used by Martial Artists in the tenfold Body Opening Realm, and is one of the most common low-level elixirs; yet even the cheapest one costs a hundred silver.

Apart from those eight people, the other 194 individuals in the Hou family use a common non-prescription medicine called Body Opening Powder, each dose valued at just five silver.

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It's not that Hou Yuxiao, the Family Head, is stingy; the Hou family has many members and the income in the past two years has been too meager, barely enough to sustain such expenses.

However, these days should soon be over!

"Destroy the Green Wolf Gang, the Flying Eagle Sect, and besides Pingyang Street, all three streets of Zhaoyang will be entirely in my hands, monopolizing the whole Nanling Region, and together with the small gold mine Ren Feng gave me, the near future should see financially easier times for a while. Alright, alright, supporting my cultivation and improving the clan's situation shouldn't be a big problem! "

Hou Yuxiao ended his meditative state, relaxing in his chair, thinking that the situation would soon improve, and allowed himself a small relief without dwelling on these issues any further.

Yesterday, after arranging tasks for everyone, he returned to the Hou Mansion for the night. The battle the night before was not the main issue, but he had realized that his physical condition was very poor, which is why he rushed back to check on his body's condition.

Breaking through from the Coagulate Gang phase to the Gathering Malevolence phase, he had relied on the swallowing power of the Divine Lotus, directly draining the life's cultivation of three Elders in the Gang Qi Realm. At that time, he only had partial meritorious powers, hardly sufficient to offset the immense Karmic Obstacle that such great cultivation caused.

If it wasn't for the Vast Righteous Qi in that scroll, he would have undoubtedly died then.

It makes sense; after all, consuming a lifetime's cultivation in one breath, if not resulting in any repercussions, would truly be defying the natural order.

"Powers of merit, Vast Righteous Qi, both can help me offset the force of the Karmic Obstacle. From now on, I must use that swallowing power prudently and make sure my merit is sufficient to balance out the Karmic Obstacles, otherwise another time, I might not be so lucky!"

After reflecting on this, Hou Yuxiao shifted his mind back to his own mind, looking at the huge white mass of merit within, his face suddenly showing a smile.

"I can try to activate the fourth white petal; it's just uncertain if there's enough to activate the fourth white petal.

Or, I could use it to exchange for a large batch of Minor Rejuvenation Pills to enhance the overall strength of the clan's Martial Artists!"

Making merit by saving tens of thousands of people from one city, it was too much, so much that Hou Yuxiao didn't know how to use it for a while.

"Master of Hou Family, the Holy Maiden summons you!"

While he was deep in thought, a familiar female voice suddenly came from outside; it was Fu Ling, the maid of Sikong Yue. Hou Yuxiao hurriedly got up to receive her.

Yet it appeared the other party had just come to deliver a message, and when Hou Yuxiao came out, he only saw Fu Ling's retreating figure. His expression flickered slightly as he immediately followed.

......

Pingyang Street, Shengxin Residence second floor

Hou Yuxiao knelt somewhat uncomfortably before Sikong Yue. Though it was only their second meeting, he felt an inherent fear towards this woman from the bottom of his heart.

From the moment he saw that Sikong Yue could even utilize meritorious deeds, Hou Yuxiao knew that in front of this woman, he hardly had any secrets.

This feeling of being stripped bare made him very uneasy.

Truth be told, at least so far, his impression of this woman was not bad.

Other than knowing too much, everything else about her was very good.

Hou Yuxiao thus knelt on the ground, and without even lifting his head, he could sense Sikong Yue's gaze on him.

After all, as a Second Realm Grandmaster, her oppressive presence was undeniable.

Hou Yuxiao was not worried that Sikong Yue would harm him.

The reason Zhaoyang was defended successfully ultimately boiled down to having Sikong Yue present, an undeniable fact.

However, the role played by Hou Yuxiao was not small.

His defeat of Tian Linong forced the Ninth Sword God, Gu Chenfeng, into action; though it didn't determine the final outcome, it allowed Sikong Yue to gain the upper hand in this turmoil.

This was also why Gu Chenfeng later spoke somewhat critically of him.

As for why Sikong Yue summoned him, Hou Yuxiao had already made a rough guess in his mind.

He had contributed to the defense of Zhaoyang during the siege.

In this upheaval, he had also demonstrated notable strength and tactics.

Further combining his earlier speculation that The Righteous Path's probing might be due to some internal issues within the Rakshasa Holy Sect,

the purpose of Sikong Yue summoning him was quite clear.

The Holy Church was indeed in need of people!

"The Holy Church is indeed in need of people."

......

A gentle voice came through. Hou Yuxiao could not help but lift his head in astonishment, only to meet Sikong Yue's eyes that seemed to smile, which made him shiver and quickly lower his head again.

She even knew what he was thinking...

Was there anything this woman did not know?

"You are using the pretext of rebuilding Zhaoyang to have all the martial artists in the city heed your Hou Family's commands. It seems your ambitions are not small!"

Hou Yuxiao respectfully answered, "Holy Maiden sees clearly. The County Lord Ren Feng fled last night, and now the city is without a leader. I had no choice but to reluctantly step forward.

Conscripting these martial artists was a necessity; relying solely on the common people, Zhaoyang might not recover its Yuan Qi even after a year and a half."

He naturally could not tell the whole truth, but the next sentence from Sikong Yue instantly changed his expression.

"Your Hou Family's desire to become a recognized power is nearly impossible!"