Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 897 - 390. The Predicament of Sainthood, New Moon Festival_2

Hou Yuxiao pondered for a moment, organized his chaotic thoughts, closed his eyes, and began to focus on cultivation. Eighty million Karmic Obstacle Value, along with the inflow every day, should be sufficient to sustain for ten days. Inside those ten days, it’s equivalent to three years outside.

Now, every moment of cultivation time must be seized.

Perhaps, the opportunity will arrive unexpectedly.

Hou Yuxiao continued to quietly cultivate within the Five Elements Heaven. Even as the army rotated personnel in and out, he only created a projection to handle operations and did not budge in person. freeweɓnøvel~com

He waited until the three years passed, and the Karmic Obstacle Value was no longer sufficient to alter the time flow in the Five Elements Heaven. Only then did he slowly open his eyes, glanced at the army still cultivating below, specifically looked at Hou Wuji and Hou Wuqie, then turned and walked out of the Five Elements Heaven.

Currently, there are no pressing matters in Hexi, so he decided to let these soldiers continue cultivating inside. After all, his Karmic Obstacle Value is replenished daily. As long as there’s any surplus, it will be used on the Five Elements Heaven, allowing these people to gain more cultivation time.

October 5th, 1332, New Yu Era

Inside, three years have passed, while outside, only ten days have elapsed.

Fortunately, Hou Yuxiao had already experienced two previous sessions of seclusion that were even longer than this, so he felt no discomfort upon emerging. Besides the daily guards in Zhao Yang Palace, there were no other people around.

"Greetings, Family Head!"

Hou Yuxiao gently waved his hand, signaling the guards to continue with their duty. With a flicker, he vanished from Zhao Yang Palace. The guard who saw Hou Yuxiao disappear couldn’t hide the admiration in his eyes and began chatting with the guard nearby.

"Our Family Head now has few opponents throughout The World, right?"

"Nonsense, he can even corner a Saint to death, what do you think!"

Hou Yuxiao, leisurely traveling through the sky, shook his head helplessly upon hearing the guards’ conversation behind him.

Forcing Shi Tian to death is probably the greatest misunderstanding The World has about him currently. If it weren’t for the four Holy Land leaders, would Hou Yuxiao have risked his life to force Shi Tian to death?

However, it’s mostly the uninformed Martial Artists at lower levels who spread such rumors. Those in The World who are smarter, possess higher cultivation, or hold positions within the upper echelons of each Holy Land, including the Hou Clan, whoever participated in the Jianye Prefecture City battle, actually know the truth of the matter.

Speaking of it, the Hou Clan now governs a territory spanning half a region, yet Hou Yuxiao hadn’t properly surveyed it even once. This long seclusion provided the perfect opportunity to unwind, hovering midair, Hou Yuxiao observed the entirety of Hexi from the easternmost Zhaoyang Prefecture.

Hexi encompasses four prefectures:

To the east is Zhaoyang Prefecture; besides the Hexi Tao City located here, it includes Longxiang, Yangping, and Wanyang counties, with a Zhaoyang Prefecture City added in, totaling one Tao, one prefecture, three counties, fifteen districts, and twenty cities.

Centrally is Xingnan Prefecture; aside from Xingnan Prefecture City, there are Yinling, Jinling, Yun Xiang, Jiujun, and Yuzhao counties for a total of one prefecture, five counties, twenty-three districts, and twenty-nine cities.

To the south lies Nanping Prefecture, originally the territory of the Nanjiang Five Miao Tribes. Previously, Nanjiang had no districts. After the Hou Clan conquered Nanping, they didn’t re-establish districts. So apart from Nanping Prefecture City, the four Miao tribe cities were only converted into counties. Currently, there’s Yukang, Xiaqiu, Ziyang, Zhaoling, totaling one prefecture, four counties, five cities.

Moving west is the freshly conquered Jianye Prefecture; Jianye Prefecture City along with Pengkang, Jiuchi, Yeyun, Fuyang, and Xiapi counties make up one prefecture, five counties, twenty-two districts, and twenty-eight cities.

In total, Hexi Tao comprises eighty-two cities, with a combined population of a little over eighty million. The population varies across Tao, prefecture, county, and district levels of cities, but averaged, a city would just about have a million people, which is exactly the average for cities in various regions of The World.

Though Hexi is referred to as a Tao, its actual size doubles that of a regular Tao, mainly because of Nanping Prefecture succeeding from Nanjiang Region; it alone matches the size of a Tao. But the issue is, Nanping Prefecture only has five cities, with the Five Miao Tribes having sparse populations, thus leading to Hexi owning half a region’s land yet totaling barely over eighty million in population.

Calculating by a single region having three to five hundred million people, Hexi covering half a region should have at least two hundred million. But it’s falling short by far.

This is inevitable though; since Xu’s border crossing in 1321, Hexi has rarely been peaceful, marked by frequent warfare, with scale often reaching hundreds of thousands to millions of Martial Artists clashing, such wars easily incite demons to rampage. Not only Maiden Hong as a top third-grade celestial demon, but even lower-ranked demons were seen everywhere before Hou Yujie spearheaded cleanups.

Even Saints have battled fiercely at Wanglong Mountain.

Such turmoil in Hexi naturally prevents maintaining normal population levels.

Hou Yuxiao does want to grant Hexi a respite for recuperation, but the issue is that currently, Hexi is wedged among three major families, making its situation rather precarious. Any changes within the three could turn Hexi into a battleground, and if war breaks out, the eighty million souls in Hexi might suffer havoc once more.

Thinking of such matters inevitably weighs on one’s mind, but remembering his intention of relaxing, Hou Yuxiao slightly shook his head and dismissed these chaotic thoughts, lowering his gaze to survey Hexi’s entirety.

Things will resolve naturally when they reach critical junctions; worrying prematurely is weaving a cocoon around oneself.

Hou Clan evolved from an unremarkable clan in Zhaoyang County to now being the Lord of Hexi; isn’t it all due to surviving crisis after crisis? Now sitting atop Hexi with eighty-two cities, compared to the past, Hou Clan owns so much more leverage, with no reason to be anxiously fearful daily.

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