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

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 ans that each cultivation session consus 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 replenishnt, and elixirs in turn depend on rare and spiritual dicines as materials. The older the spiritual dicine, the higher the essence it contains. Therefore, people categorize these spiritual dicines into six levels based on their age.

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

Earth Level spiritual dicines 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 dicines!

Generally speaking, a ten-year-old basic level dicinal 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 ntion 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 na 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 dicine called Body Opening Powder, each dose valued at just five silver.

It's not that Hou Yuxiao, the Family Head, is stingy; the Hou family has many mbers and the inco in the past two years has been too ager, 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 , the near future should see financially easier tis for a while. Alright, alright, supporting my cultivation and improving the clan's situation shouldn't be a big problem! "

Hou Yuxiao ended his ditative 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 ti, he only had partial ritorious powers, hardly sufficient to offset the imnse 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 lifeti's cultivation in one breath, if not resulting in any repercussions, would truly be defying the natural order.

"Powers of rit, Vast Righteous Qi, both can help offset the force of the Karmic Obstacle. From now on, I must use that swallowing power prudently and make sure my rit is sufficient to balance out the Karmic Obstacles, otherwise another ti, 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 rit 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 rit 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 ca 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 co to deliver a ssage, and when Hou Yuxiao ca out, he only saw Fu Ling's retreating figure. His expression flickered slightly as he imdiately followed.

......

Pingyang Street, Shengxin Residence second floor

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

From the mont he saw that Sikong Yue could even utilize ritorious 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 outco, it allowed Sikong Yue to gain the upper hand in this turmoil.

This was also why Gu Chenfeng later spoke sowhat 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 so 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 ca through. Hou Yuxiao could not help but lift his head in astonishnt, only to et Sikong Yue's eyes that seed 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 beco a recognized power is nearly impossible!"