Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains-Chapter 522 - 245, The Realm of the Great Grandmaster
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Since the chaos in Tongling County, when Hou Yuxiao first witnessed the organized Mansion Army of the Rakshasa Holy Sect in battle, he understood that a martial artist’s army was truly the core force of any power. After these two years in Hedong, he had seen even more clearly that no matter how strong an individual’s martial power was, against thousands of martial artists united as an army, it was still useless.
In the end, this is the difference between the martial world and the divine halls!
The martial world is governed by the divine halls, and to all beings in the thirteen provinces of The World, the ten Holy Lands are the divine halls, while those smaller forces like transient lords across the river make up the martial world.
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To this day, Hou Yuxiao had already understood why the ten Holy Lands had established the five-tier power system. Martial artists are a group with extraordinary means, and without restrictions, if they were allowed to behave recklessly, The World would have descended into chaos long ago, and ordinary people might not even enjoy a single day of peace.
The so-called "First-Class" forces don’t merely refer to the strength of their power; in fact, that isn’t the most important aspect. Instead, it’s about the ability of a power to organize martial artists. This is also why in the criteria for promoting the rank of a force, the number of Martial Sect Disciples is a crucial factor.
The five-tier power system established by the ten Holy Lands, to put it positively, is for the consideration of The World; to put it negatively, it is their means of dominating The World. If they did not divide these martial artists into separate forces, even the mighty Holy Lands would find it difficult to rule over the massive number of martial artists born from the huge population of a province.
Through the five-tier power system, not only can the subordinate martial artist forces form a strict and independent hierarchical system, but they can also officially exploit all forces through this system, sustaining the upper levels with contributions from the lower levels, preventing the lower forces from growing and maintaining their own supreme status.
In the end, The World still belongs to these Holy Lands!
It’s precisely because Hou Yuxiao saw through this that he no longer wanted to waste effort on the power ranking of his family.
With the current strength of the Hou Clan, not to mention ascending to Second-rate, even achieving First-Class would probably not be too difficult.
Should the Hou Clan forever mingle in the martial world? Of course not, why else would the Hou Clan emulate the Rakshasa Holy Sect to establish the Zhaoyang Army, or create the Red Flame Angry Waves Holy Army Code to form the Red Flame Army?
Everything Hou Yuxiao had done was for the day when the Hou Clan would no longer be just a martial world force, but stand alongside these Holy Lands, becoming a true ruler of The World.
The five siblings were not fools; Hou Yuduan was even more cunning. If he could see the scope of things, then the other four surely could as well. Thus, many changes and measures within the family over the past two years had clearly been moving in that direction. However, all five siblings tactfully refrained from setting any explicit goals, mainly to avoid attracting attention and causing trouble for the family.
But now, that single title "my lord" laid bare the ambitions of the Hou Clan for all to see.
At this moment, Hou Yuxiao finally understood why before the iron gates had opened, Hou Yuduan had asked him to open his eyes and see clearly.
Over fifty-five thousand martial artists, each at a minimum of five levels of body refinement and well-trained, knelt before him in unison, saluting. The huge wave of sound near shattered the clouds in the sky, a terrifying momentum that even a Full Completion of Yuandan martial artist wouldn’t dare to confront directly.
With such a display of power, along with the phrase "my lord," even though Hou Yuxiao’s mind was filled with fear and shock, thinking of this formidable army belonging to the Hou Clan, he still felt a surge of excitement in his heart.
The scale of the Battle of Hedong was, of course, far beyond this army of over fifty thousand, but after all that was a joint effort of four Holy Lands and the Quasi-Holy Land Leiyin Temple, which are among the top forces in The World. As of now, the Hou Clan was at least catching sight of their backs.
What’s more important is that it took Hou Yuxiao only a little over three years to bring the family to this size. As long as he proceeded step by step, given another ten or twenty years, what might the situation be like then?
It is not impossible that the Hou Clan might one day compete for supremacy in The World!
The five thousand Red Flame Army, capable of withstanding a full-fledged martial arts expert of the Three Realms of Yuan Dan, and the fifty thousand Zhaoyang Army, capable of sweeping through Grandmasters, these two armies mean that the Hou Clan has already attained First-Class strength. As long as they await the day when Hexi Prefecture is officially established, the Hou Clan becoming a First-Class force is just a natural progression.
Baiye Camp is just over thirty miles away from Tongling County. Even if the fifty thousand Zhaoyang Army were to set out from here to the Prefectural City, it would only take three hours, and if it’s the five thousand Red Flame Army equipped with war horses, it would take less than half an hour to arrive. Unless great powers or Holy Lands took action personally, the Hou Clan currently faces no threat.
With this, Hou Yuxiao finally put his mind at ease. He did not linger in Baiye Camp any longer and, after meeting with some of the Commanders of the army, he returned to Tongling with Hou Yuling, Hou Yujie, and Hou Yuduan.
Hou Yucheng was of course not going to leave. He had a keen interest in this area, and seeing the big army, he was as excited as if injected with chicken blood. Besides, he was already the Commander of the Zhaoyang Army. Given that the fifty thousand plus Zhaoyang Army and the five thousand Red Flame Army were under his command, he naturally stayed in Baiye Camp.
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October 17th of the New Yu Era, year 1324
Inside the quiet room of the main hall of Hou Mansion, Hou Yuxiao sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, his Primeval Energy flowing continuously within his body, ebbing and flowing with the tide as it moved towards his lower abdomen along the extraordinary channels and meridians. As it neared his lower abdomen, beads of sweat continued to emerge from his brow and the corners of his eyes, and his face gradually took on an expression of immense concentration.
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