Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Chapter 259: 152. Breakthrough, Condensing the Martial Dao Spirit

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Five Realms of Grandmasters, the First Realm is True Qi Manifesting Method, the Second Realm is Martial God Platform, the Third Realm is Transform True Qi into Yuan, then by using this True Yuan to break through the Que Shen Divine Acupoint in the lower abdomen, one ascends to the Great Grandmaster of the Fourth Realm, and finally, by breaking through the Heavenly Gate Acupoint between the eyebrows, and connecting all the body's meridians, one becomes what the people call the Great Grandmaster of the Fifth Realm at Heaven's Level.

Hou Yuxiao is currently in the First Level Manifestation Phase of the Grandmaster Realm. To break through to the Divine Communication realm, he must first open the Martial Dao Divine Platform, and then condense his own Martial Dao Spirit.

To open the Divine Platform, one needs the True Qi to be full in the dantian. Even for a Grandmaster Realm Martial Artist with exceptional talent, this process would take at least ten to twenty years of cultivation at the very least.

If one's talent is average, then the time may well be more than five times as long.

As for Martial Artists with poor aptitudes, generally, they cannot even break through to the Grandmaster Realm, so how long it takes is not even a question worth asking.

Of course, what is being discussed here is the scenario where a Martial Artist relies solely on their own daily practice, without the aid of any external object, drawing True Qi from between heaven and earth; only then would it take so long.

Though True Qi originates from heaven and earth, once it enters the human body, it becomes part of the essence of blood and Qi; at this time, the role of elixirs becomes significant.

However, the essence of blood and Qi required by a Grandmaster is so immense that ordinary elixirs are hardly sufficient to meet the needs of cultivation.

Martial Artists of the Body Opening Realm use a Body Strengthening Pill to aid their cultivation, and although the Body Strengthening Pill is the lowest level entry Spirit Pill, a single pill still has a market price of around one hundred taels; as for Warriors of the Gang Qi Realm, because the effects of Yuan Gang Beads are the best, there is not much circulation of Spirit Pills for Gang Qi Realm Martial Artists' cultivation on the market.

As for the Spirit Pills that can provide essence of blood and Qi for Grandmaster Realm Martial Artists to condense their True Qi, those need to be at least Second-rate Spirit Pills, and the medicinal herbs used must be over 50 years old, with prices outrageously high.

When Hou Yuxiao had inquired in Wanyang County before, the cheapest Second-rate Spirit Pill was over three thousand taels, and even second-tier forces could not afford to supply them in unlimited quantities, let alone third-tier forces. No, even first-tier forces likely do not have the financial strength!

Hou Yuxiao had once taken a Second-rate Spirit Pill named Jade Pivot. Based on his dantian's absorption rate, he could consume at least two pills a day, meaning just to sustain one Grandmaster would cost over six thousand taels a day. Six thousand taels might not be much to a first-tier force, but what if it's six thousand taels every day?

Ten days is sixty thousand, a hundred days is six hundred thousand, three hundred days is one million eight hundred thousand taels...

That is just for sustaining one Grandmaster. The entire wealth of a force surely cannot be used to sustain just one person. Moreover, the current Hou Clan, even including that small gold mine in Zhaoyang Nanling Mountain, could not possibly spend such an amount to sustain a Grandmaster.

He estimated that even a first-tier force would not be able to afford such expenses, probably only those Earth Level or above powerful forces would have such formidable financial resources.

"Fortunately, I can completely save on this expenditure!"

Hou Yuxiao murmured softly and then reached into his chest to extract seven dense orbs of light, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

With the swallowing ability of the third black petal of the Divine Lotus, which can absorb others' power and cultivation, he would not need to rely on Spirit Pills for his cultivation if this swallowing ability continues as is.

What essence of blood and Qi from any spiritual pills can compare to decades, or even centuries, of others' hard cultivation!

Although such acts go against the natural order, he could no longer care so much.

Hou Yuxiao looked down at the seven orbs of light in his hands, his eyes flashing with a harsh light.

This world is too dangerous!

Two years ago, when Hou Yuxiao came here, the Divine Lotus had not yet activated; Zhaoyang was surrounded by wolves, and he was extremely cautious, groveling before Ren Feng, dealing submissively with the other two families, to the point of utmost shamelessness, just to scrape out a narrow path of survival. He thought that by acting this way, he would be able to lead his clan and live peacefully for a few days.

Unexpectedly, the Zhaoyang Disturbance came, attacked by the entire Mountain Sword Sect, Sikong Yue, Tuoba Huang, Tian Fazheng, Gu Chenfeng, Cheng Yue, Qi Juesi, Tian Linong... one after another, strong characters appeared who could put him, put the Hou Clan, in mortal danger.

If it weren't for his hedging, swaying between the righteous and the wicked, and finally seizing the moment to side with Sikong Yue, the Hou Clan would have perished along with Zhaoyang, not to mention the subsequent events like entering the Prefectural City, killing Cheng Yue, retreating Ding Dian, advancing to first-tier, and slaying the Ninth Sword God, Gu Chenfeng.

Hou Clan had ascended to first-tier status; he had also ascended to the Grandmaster Realm, and even killed the Ninth Sword God Gu Chenfeng. He thought that this would make the Hou Clan's foothold in Tongling and even Xingnan Prefecture secure, but he soon realized how naive he had been.

Maiden Hong, Yang Xin, Lv Luo, Song Yang, along with that army of over ten thousand demons.

Zhan Taiqing, Zhang Yuning, Lian Ningxue, Moxuzi, Zen Master Yuan Kong, Zen Master Yuan Fa; these six great experts, as well as forces from the unknown in the Xuzhou area, were constantly reminding him that, in the eyes of these strong characters, the Hou Clan was still insignificant as ants.

To survive in this dangerous world, to protect his three younger brothers, his younger sister, and the large group of clan members below him, as long as he could enhance his own cultivation and strengthen the clan's power, let alone be perceived as harmful to people, even becoming demons, if necessary, he would still, without hesitation, do so!

Hou Yuxiao took a deep breath, his mind sinking into his Sea of Consciousness, where the Merit Gold Page quietly floated, with two lines of numbers reflecting clearly into his sight:

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