Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 894 - 389, Red Flame Expands Army, Mood Changes

New Yu Era, September 25, 1332

With Hou Yuxiao’s virtuous merit blessing, Five Elements Heaven has been operational for nearly a century, growing from an initial area of just fifty square miles to its current expanse of over a thousand square miles.

Initially, the Five Elements Heaven was barren, with the whole world shrouded in a gray mist, but now that is long gone; the skies and earth are distinct, covered with flourishing landscapes of forests, mountains, plains, hills, peaks, lakes, and even the minute beginnings of life, such as small insects, birds, and small beasts in the mountains, have gradually begun to evolve.

If the newly acquired Five Elements Heaven was once just an isolated pocket space cut off from Shenzhou, then at this moment, it has truly become its own little world.

Hou Yuxiao even suspects that, even without his interference, this world will eventually transform into a small world like Shenzhou; however, this small world can alter its time flow through karmic obstacles.

The Five Elements Heaven needs time to evolve, more accurately, it needs karmic obstacles.

And now, Hou Yuxiao is faced with a difficult problem.

His Karmic Obstacle Value is insufficient!

Virtue points: 421234573

Karmic obstacles: 85343233

In March, when he first discovered he could use karmic obstacles to change the time flow rate of the Five Elements Heaven, his virtue points and karmic obstacle values were over 300 million and over 1 billion, respectively. At that time, Hexi had just annexed Nanping Prefecture, and his population exploded to 50 million, providing him with over 100 million in virtue points and karmic obstacles each month.

Though it seemed like a lot, the issue was that altering the time flow rate in the Five Elements Heaven alone required 10 million karmic obstacles each day, requiring 300 million in obstacles a month. By early July, during the attack on Jianye Prefecture, he had used up 900 million obstacles, and even though there were 300 million in income during those three months, the obstacles had dwindled to just over 400 million.

The battle of Jianye Prefecture reaped a good amount of obstacles, over 300 million, but from July up till now, another 600 million had gone, and despite an income of 200 million in these two months, what should have been nearly 300 million left was further reduced by his relentless use of obstacles to achieve a breakthrough to a Saint, leaving now only over 80 million.

As with karmic obstacles, the situation is similar with virtue points.

The increased price of the Minor Rejuvenation Pill, the martial arts advancements, strength enhancement, and even the exchange for Primordial Blood involved relatively minor consumption of virtue points individually. However, these functionalities were all used extensively. Take, for example, a Minor Rejuvenation Pill: despite the Hou Clan having millions of Martial Artists, not everyone qualifies to use it; needless to say, Primordial Blood, which requires 10,000 virtue points to exchange, is currently exclusive to a select few elites within the Red Flame Army—other Hou Clan members are not qualified to use it.

Nevertheless, the Primordial Blood only enhances individual cultivation talent. Comparatively, utilizing the Five Elements Heaven to alter the time flow rate is more advantageous for cultivation, as the former can only serve a small group, whereas the latter benefits the entire Hou Clan Martial Artists.

"When we captured Jianye Prefecture in July, only two months have passed in the outside world, but within the Five Elements Heaven, sixteen years have gone by. Almost all clan Martial Artists, as long as they were not on external assignments, were training inside. Now, Martial Artists of the Ten Layers of Body Openings are nearly everywhere in the clan; the matter of expanding the Red Flame Army, as suggested by the Second Elder, should be almost ready!"

Hou Yuxiao pondered silently, glanced down at the family Martial Artists training on the plains below, then vanished from the Five Elements Heaven. Within less than ten minutes, upon returning, he was already accompanied by Hou Yuduan and Hou Yucheng.

"Old Fifth, since we captured Jianye Prefecture two months ago, I haven’t inquired until now. What is the current population of the entire Hexi, and how many Martial Artists are there? You are aware, right?"

"After cleaning up the remnants of the defeated soldiers from Leiyin Temple, the Martial Registry system was promptly implemented over in Jianye Prefecture. The total population of Jianye Prefecture is 24.24 million, with 2.13 million registered Martial Artists. Originally there were some native forces in Jianye Prefecture, but Leiyin Temple had already cleared them earlier, saving us some trouble.

According to Big Brother’s previous instructions, no notable forces exist within Hexi anymore; all Martial Artists are managed according to the Martial Registry system. Unless there are blood ties or small-scale master-apprentice relationships not exceeding ten people, they are not allowed to reside publicly together; teaching centers and accepting students for training are not permitted anymore either."

Hou Yuduan entered aware that Hou Yuxiao had instructions to provide, and since he managed these matters, he replied promptly.

million, plus the previous 50 million in Hexi, means currently the total population in Hexi is approximately 80 million; my monthly income is exactly 160 million, matching perfectly.

Hou Yuxiao nodded and continued to ask, "How many casualties did our more than 2 million troops suffer in Jianye Prefecture, and has all their post-war support been settled?"

The capture of Jianye Prefecture deployed 1 million Red Flame Army, plus 1.3 million Zhaoyang Army. Back then, the entire Hou Clan comprised only 3.5 million troops, including 1.2 million Red Flame Army and 2.3 million Zhaoyang Army. Though the Jianye Prefecture battle went relatively smoothly, casualties were considerable; however, these matters were always handled by Hou Yuduan, so Hou Yuxiao hadn’t inquired much. Now, considering the expansion of troops, it’s essential to clarify the situation beforehand. freēwēbnovel.com

"The Red Flame Army lost a total of 150,000, mainly in the battle of Jianye Prefecture City. The Zhaoyang Army, with less experience, lost over 70,000. For those Martial Artists and soldiers who died fighting for Hexi, aside from issuing pensions to their widows, Hexi’s Martial Registry stipulates that their children will all be recognized as martyrs’ children, financially supported by the Hou Clan until they turn 18, and they also inherit the family status of the martyrs, without the need for qualification assessments to join the Hou Clan."

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